
Poor Preschooler Needing Surgery Faces Steep Odds
A law passed last year providing health care for all people in the Philippines takes effect this month, but that will not matter to remote villagers where there are no doctors or medical facilities.
Impoverished villagers have long suffered from lack of access to health care in the Southeast Asian country.
Against this backdrop, a 4-year-old boy in Mindanao whose hernia made it too painful to play with other children didn’t realize how lucky he was.