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Seydou Konaté is a doctor in a remote area in Mali. But he is at the center of a global issue: bringing quality health care to rural people left behind by development.
Nearly 10 per cent of the world population suffers from malaria. Regions of the planet where malaria is severely active almost match the map of the world poorest countries.This disease is not only a matter of health and mortality, it is a plague touching all vital aspects of the countries where malaria is rife; it draws precariousness and lack of hygiene, weakens family and economic activities as well as education. The fight against malaria is the fight against poverty, the fight for the development of south countries, for women's right to work, for chidren 's education.
Several times each year, they find themselves 13.000 Km from home in a hospital in Laos. They come from Luxemburg, from Strasbourg, from Freiburg : they are surgeons, pediatricians, nurses, anaesthetists…
For one week, they operate on children suffering from heart malformations and they train a laotian medical team so it can become autonomous in a near future. Total immersion in Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane during one of the missions of Aid to Health Development.
Saint-Denis, in the suburbs of Paris. Several charitable institutions undertake a development project for Morocco. A group of French young adults going through reintegration/rehabilitation convert a bus into a clinic. But does everyone have the same ideas or interests? Will the different ways of reasoning coincide?
The problems accumulate, the project progresses at a slower pace than expected…It's the beginning of a three-year adventure, full of rebounds and humanity.
"People in rich countries are standing by as millions of people die every year from diseases like malaria and tuberculosis that can be cured. If the rich world would help the poor mobilize just 40 dollars per person for health per year, eight million deaths - mostly among children - could be averted every year," the American economist Jeffrey Sachs claims in the documentary, "Globalisation - to the Benefit of Health?"
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