Editor,
Your July 3 article on the 'Access Expo' by Doctors Without Borders on campus did not cover the panel discussion that Friday evening, which in turn did not cover an equally vital lack of accessibility and affordability of local doctors in the countries they serve.
Thus it took two questions from me to get a panelist to reveal the crisis in Malawi: The nation has a full 14 million people. Yet they have only one medical school, which graduates around 15 doctors a year. One has only to relate this to the vastly underserved state of New Mexico, to empathize with Malawians. This organization can talk all it wants about access to life-saving medicines, but where are the numbers of local doctors needed to safely prescribe and monitor the often toxic side-effects for long after Doctors without Borders has done its crisis management and left?
Arun Aruja,
UNM student
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