East Timor's Growing Health Crisis
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Channel: Journeyman Pictures · 2014 · News & Politics
The Clinic - As Australia and the US battle to exploit the oil wealth in the East Timor Sea, one american doctor has opened a clinic to fight for the living standards of the impoverished East-Timorese Subscribe to Journeyman for daily current affairs and science reports Monday to Friday: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures Watch our top stories for this week: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGSlkijht5gyYNkhTOmpP-3AKawhjkdv For more on East Timor's https://jman.tv/film/4995/Taxing+Times+in+Timor For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=67722 East Timor has experienced a violent history. Now, 68% of the country live in poverty and a health emergency is raging. This report follows the doctors and patients caught in the middle of its welfare crisis. In a Dili clinic, the corridors are lined with waiting patients. Many have diseases Westerners thought consigned to history. Most suffer from malnutrition and an overwhelming proportion are children. For a country rich in resources, the emergency is shocking, even to the aid workers working there. "There is no access to anything near adequate healthcare", says Dr Murphy, an American who left Iowa for East Timor 16 years ago. For Dr Goncalves, a local doctor, the fight is a personal one. "Two of my brothers died before they were 3. Both of them died of diarrhoea". As doctors and healthcare workers continue the challenge of treating preventable diseases, we follow the people grappling with "the biggest health crisis in the Pacific region". ABC Australia - Ref - 6256 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
