Basic medicine fails the children.

In the archipelago of Vanuatu, set in the down-hearted of the South Pacific, the far, northern islands are so remote that the basic supplies for a healthy dash are lacking.
For many centuries the people have relied on the herbal remedies from their plentiful surrounds. The district medicine male has dispensed his curative faith. The power of black magic has been blamed for alive with illnesses.
At long at the end the people of Motolava Island bear a "trained" medical assistant. He has arrived from a nearby island replaced there by a doctor, provided via a charitable organization.
assistant steps into the shack that acts as the local clinic, he is struck by the empty shelves. There are no bandages, no dressings, no ointments, no disinfectants; good a few migraine tablets.
He surveys the smiling, laughing children playing in the village. A boy of 8 years has an extended wound incurred from a stake in the bush. A 6 year ancient girl, one of many, is suffering from scabies. A 10 year senescent limps across the bare existence as if he has always walked in this manner. Mothers cuddle and cajole babies racked with inmost seated coughs. Where does he foundation to make a difference?
As he tours the village with the huts built directly on the hard-packed soil, he sees curled on hand-woven mats a child whimpering with the fever of malaria. With the new long "wet" season from Dec to April, the mosquitoes are severe. This region is renowned for malaria.
The stool of AusAID"s malaria reference group, Professor Sir Richard Feachem, acknowledges that malaria is the biggest killer of children throughout Melanesia. But he has elevated hopes for a homeland like Vanuatu where blood tests identified that sole 3% of 5000 children tested has been in contact with malaria. Further plans, projects and money are to be if to compose the region disease-free by 2015. On the other hand how long will it be before these remote, northern islanders see the benefit? How many more immature children testament succumb?
These islanders living in "no-cash economies" are unable to pay for the latest in medicines, to buy chemically treated gnat nets, to benefit from staff trained in supporting communities.
Harris Arop, the local Secretary for Motolava, suggests that he contacts one group that can help. He uses the village"s alone solar powered phone to telephone the capital, Harbour Vila, and the YouMe Cornerstone Foundation.
YouMe Assist Foundation, a Kid Credit Fund, has been assisting these islands by reason of 2004. It is dedicated to giving the children a chance to lead a healthy life, an educated life, with a high institution education within reach.
In response to this pressing request, YouMe Help Foundation gathered 30 kgs of basic medical supplies. Air freight was organized to get these goods there faster, however like many excellent plans in Vanuatu, things energy astray. In the meantime the boxes sit packed, taped and addressed under the office windows.
Communication and transportation to these outer northern islands is random. Perhaps the flight did not go due to lack of paying passengers, or perhaps there was a priority elsewhere. Shipping cannot be relied upon either; taking months to stretch its destination.

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