Watching Discovery health yesterday....

[Mskanga]

There was one of these Birth Day shows , it showed women giving birth in different countries and their customs.
There were women giving birth in Japan, some arabic country ( didn't get which one ) , Russia , India and I forgot where else.
I heard one of the nurses yell at the mother,
stop crying , the hospital in Japan was actually good but no fathers are allowed to be present in the birthing rooms, but the one that really struck me was the hospital in the arabic country.
The woman needed a c-section , the operating room looked worse than a bad gas station bathroom, they had no sutures to close that woman up after the c-section , so they gave the husband a prescription for sutures and he had to run out and try to find some in a pharmacy while they were operating.
The baby was delivered and didn't breath , I cannot even describe what they did to that poor baby, they put a piece of gauze over the baby's mouth and started CPR, put him upside down and smack the heck out of his little butt , the baby was limb for a while but eventually started to cry.
Oh yes, and then they moved him into the NICU , guess what the NICU was? an unused room and when the nurse would get out of the room , they shut off the lights, the baby was in that little chamber in a dark room with nothing else.
Then I heard , most of those people working there were people without training.
Let me tell you , I know that healthcare here can be expensive, but I thank God we have what we have.
The woman in Russia actually had the baby placed in a basinet in the hospital that was rusted.
It was really sad to see that.

 

[Pugsley]

I saw some of that too – really disturbing. I heard a nurse (it may be the one you were talking about) yelling at a woman “you’re not pushing, you’re just messing around!” And I couldn’t believe how hard they were hitting that baby and how they were carrying it around by its feet!

 

[Gone Disney]

I sit and listen to people talk about how loosey life is because they can't afford things or are jealous because other have things they don't. Which are all material things. I think to myself these people do not know how fortunate they are. Many people in other countries, heck even in the great "America", don't have or know of many modern conveniences. I saw a Datline (I think) show where these boys who lived in Africe would wait for their chance to come to America. I forget what program brings them here. But they come and are setup with a place to live and are given some training and a job. They have a short period of time to adjust and then they have to go out and make it on their own. When they were taken to their home, which was a very small apartment, they had to be shown how to use all appliances even the can opener, vacuum cleaner, oven and ect. They had never seen these things before. It was quite funny seeing this boy learn to drive. He had no concept of a car. Truthfully some of the boys were overwhelmed with the whole thing.

I do feel VERY fortunate and thank god ever day for my life.
When things get bad I always say "things could be worse"



Patti

 

[Mskanga]

Pugsley, it was the same nurse, IF she was a nurse. Gone Disney, I agree with you 100%, I know one thing, yesterday seeing that made me realize that I will never complain about how much my meds are or a doctor's visit, I feel blessed that I have the means to pay for it.
But to see the way those women and babies were treated , made me cry, how can this happen on this day and age?

 

[Gone Disney]

Originally posted by Mskanga

But to see the way those women and babies were treated , made me cry, how can this happen on this day and age?

That's the really sad part. I can't watch that stuff because it makes me sick and heartbroken.

If you think about it things all around are better than they were many years ago it's just that standards in certain places get better and make other places that have not changed seem that much worse. To add to that most people are not likely to put others before themselves especially governments. Look at Iraq Saddam lived in palaces' you and I would awe at while people just outside his gates were living in squaller. It's not fair, it's not right, it's not what god intended but it is. Sickening that it can not be changed.

However I believe we all have the power to make a difference. If you do even the smallest of "good deeds" then you have made atleast a contribution to making the world a better place.


Patti