Ebola: The rich get the best care while the poor are left to die
THE most important and tragic speech of these times was given earlier this week, though the author was too busy to voice it herself.
Dr Margaret Chan, who leads the World Health Organization, sent her chief of staff to a WHO regional conference in Manila to spotlight something we rarely keep in our conscious mind and don’t, collectively, do much about: Inequalities can be a matter of ever-longer life, or a most miserable death.
