"Health care is a basic need of all societies"...

[The Straight Story]

Afghans Make ‘Tremendous Progress’ in Health Care, U.S. Officer Says
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2008 – The Afghan government, with assistance from U.S. and international forces and nongovernmental agencies, has made great progress over the past year in providing health care to the country’s population, a U.S. Army physician posted in Afghanistan said today.

“The impact of medicine on stability (operations) cannot be underestimated,” Army Col. (Dr.) Jeffrey Johnson, the 82nd Airborne Division’s top doctor and command surgeon for Combined Joint Task Force 82’s eastern regional command, told Pentagon reporters via satellite hookup from Bagram Air Base, located north of the Afghan capital city of Kabul.

People’s access to health care in Afghanistan has made “tremendous progress” over the past 13 months, Johnson said.

Health care is a basic need of all societies, said Johnson, who for just over a year has coordinated Afghan health care issues within Regional Command East.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49007

Hello? Can we bring better health care to our own country?

[truedelphi]

1. It damn well is a basic human right n/t