This is what you get for trying to help people
Libya has sentenced to death six foreign medical workers for infecting dozens of children with HIV/AIDS. Nevermind that the doctor and five nurses came to Libya to try and help children, not harm them. And nevermind that genetic mutation rates prove quite conclusively that the outbreak actually started about three years before the six ever arrived. What we have here is a piss-poor health care system that didn’t even have rudimentary sterile safeguards in place against transmission of blood-borne diseases. Some foreigners try to come in and fix up the place, but instead get blamed for intentionally infecting children with HIV because the populace over there would rather believe in some nonsense conspiracy theory and sentence innocent well-intentioned people to death than accept the severe failures on their end.
You know what? They don’t deserve western medicine. If this is how they treat people who come over at great personal expense to try to help them, then they can keep their piss-poor hospitals, run by people so incompetent they don’t know to use different needles on different people.
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