NewsOne Contributor Madison J. Gray sees Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncans death this week as a prime example of how the health system in this country continuously fails Black men. He writes: Three Americans all contracted Ebola while working as volunteers for a missionary group in Liberia. Another got it while working as a journalist there. When those four were diagnosed, treatment was almost immediate. They were taken to the United States and given what was needed. These cases were examples of the virus being diagnosed on the spot and getting an immediate response. In Duncan’s case, though, he depended on a public health system that basically sent him home with some antibiotics, and through a series of human error, rendered him infected for a longer period without proper treatment, allowing the virus to attack his system to a point where he could not build antibodies to fight it. Gray then concludes: Thomas Eric Duncan should still be alive. But the reason he’s not alive is because the system that is supposed to find out what’s wrong didn’t. So it’s time for Black men and the public health system to actually come to some common ground for our own well being, whether it is a virus that is afflicting us or street violence. Do you agree with Grays conclusion? newsone/3060465/black-men-and-health-care
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:56:41 +0000
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