Reference :
V-P-PH-E-00246
Date :
14/01/2009
Caption :
Mindanao Island, Cotabato regional medical center. A man displaced by warfare between government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, is treated.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
reserved users only
Description :
This young man - just 24 - is in the last stage of pulmonary tuberculosis. The doctor on duty says that he is already beyond help, like many other gravely ill displaced persons who have been forced to flee by the fighting in the southern Philippines.
This largely forgotten conflict has led to the displacement of roughly 300,000 people as of now. They become poorer with each flight from their homes and rice paddies. Many simply don't have the money or the means to seek medical care until it is too late.
The young man is given an IV drip and a chest tube in the emergency room and transferred upstairs to the TB ward, where, less than 48 hours later, he will die.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
5000x3333
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
