Access To Healthcare

As we speak, the right to health care still isn’t a reality for millions of children around the globe, and more particularly in developing countries. Every year, over 13 million children under the age of 5 years die from illnesses which could have been avoided or treated (“Right to Health Care Around the Globe” 1). This is an issue because more people are just paying attention to the problems in developed countries, while citizens in less developed countries are struggling with health care. The Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, should help out developing countries that do not have access to quality healthcare by providing willing doctors to the countries in order to reduce deaths that could have been easily avoided.

Infectious disease are way more frequent and serious in children that suffer from malnutrition and little to no access to drinking water. More than 200 million children worldwide under age 5 do not get basic health care, leading to nearly 10 million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia(“10 Million Children Die from Lack of Health Care”). Illnesses like these are easily avoidable in the United States, but only because we have enough access to clinics
There is very much a focus on getting the job done. Therefore health is given a very low priority, which often translates into the view that medical services and hospitals are really the last resort (“Rural Health Around the World: Challenges and Solutions”). So by either setting up free clinics or just have traveling doctors, providing doctors to these countries will greatly impact the number of deaths in developing countries because they can inform people how to identify diseases and provide simple treatments for easily avoidable