Why We're Here

One of the main things we focus on when teaching our students is prevention. One of the major topics is malaria. The NSGA office manager's brother died on Monday because of malaria. He was 32. They knew he had it and treated him with a medication that malaria is becoming resistant to. He didn't get better and ended up with acute kidney failure. Then they left him in the hospital without treatment for 5 days before they decided he needed to be tranferred to Senegal for dialysis (the closest country with the equipment). By this time his family could not afford the flight to Dakar and he could not survive the 6 hours drive on terrible roads. He died needlessly. Very sad. How lucky are we Canadians?