What Makes a Healthy Nation?
Article submitted by Nigel Harding, Regional Coordinator in East Africa This question was raised again in my mind by a recent experience traveling in a remote district of northern Uganda (Pader) with some visitors from the UK and USA, where we encountered Jacqueline, lying unconscious by the side of the main dirt road. Her parents were unavailable, being some distance away, working their garden for food to eat. Her brother was around. A local government administrator was also passing by on a motorcycle and acted as our interpreter. Thankfully we also had two doctors on board our vehicle. God had his hand on this girl, with time, place and people coming together in perfect harmony. Eventually, we all agreed that she should be taken unconscious to the nearest medical facility. We reached the best clinic in the town after my twenty minute “ambulance” style drive. It was a newly built, free facility, with an outpatients clinic and one inpatients ward. There were at least two hundred adult
