Suffering from Malaria is very real

Have you ever been ill and you went to the pharmacy and they were out of medicine? Have you ever had a prescription that could not be filled? In the United States most of our pharmacies are corporations which make convenience and availability strong factors in their service. Supply and demand can have its problems. In Liberia where most people are poor money to buy the supplies well produce conditions where super limited supply will not meet the demands.

Such is the case with my friend Moses and his teen daughter. I receive this note, last night. 

“Hi Uncle Bill, my daughter's was diagnosed with cerebral malaria that would soon lead to mental disorder or even death. The test was done at the Liberian Government Hospital in Buchanan when her condition was very serious.. The results were, to take her at the redemption hospital in Monrovia.., so it's time that I need your help

I'm told by the Buchanan Government Hospital that there was no drugs to treat her.”

Where Moses is taking his laughter is about 100+ miles away. His costs are beyond his needs. Barb and I will try to do what we can.”

Moses uses uncle as was the habit of the children who went to school where I served as teacher and principal. I have encouraged him to just call me Bill. His daughter's health is in critical condition.

You may read the paper or the news about malaria being in deadly. But thanks to social media and phone apps I am able to be in contact with a few people who are facing malaria in their daily lives.

a concerned father

When I lived in Africa, I contracted malaria and my temperature went up 105 degrees. For me it was worse than the flu. My fever was up high enough where I saw sparkles of color on the area of the ceiling. My first hallucination, which was real because my brain was producing it. Of course Barb could not see it, and I new that. When I was treated for malaria the symptoms got better.

The resources in the smaller Buchanan Hospital did not have the medicine she needed. Moses now is seeking the main hospital in the Liberia for help. God has laid on my heart to personally help a few people who are poor, and like many poor they are hard-working and industrious. Yes, I actively praying for these people, but I also trying to consider how to improve the basic problems they face. The idea of online education and medical care I believe could have good outcomes, but more people have to become personally involved. 

In Liberia, medicine and food often end up in the black market. Medicine is also a pay as you go philosophy. The poor and those away from the cities are left on their own to deal with it. I welcome your prayers and thoughts one these things. Keep walking