While I was reading TIME's 100 most influential people, I was made to think of my career for the last 30 years as a surgeon. The perineal problem that I often encountered in my practice was the lack of money to buy medicine. The doctor was available and consultation can be had in most government hospitals. But the biggest problem that patients encounter was how to buy the medicines prescribed. I got to thinking that why is this. A lot of movements and foundations face problems like AIDS, MALARIA, TUBERCOLOSIS but none is addressing the most common problem of patients: the treatment of very common illnesses such as UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION AND URINARY TRACT INFECTION. These diseases need antibiotics and no charity foundation or cause is addressing this problem. Why not form a group that would address this common problem and help a lot of people more than AIDS, MALARIA, TB, POLIO combine.
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