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The April newsletter <\/a>on the Friends of Sick Children in Malawi (FOSCiM) website makes salutary reading.\u00a0\u00a0 It gives a comparison of UK to Malawi statistics.\u00a0\u00a0 Although improving they still make heart-breaking reading.\u00a0\u00a0 From the newsletter:<\/p>\n

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The figures for child mortality under one –<\/p>\n

For every child under one in the UK that dies ELEVEN die in Malawi<\/p>\n

I have every reason to be grateful to the NHS for the care I received when giving birth to our two girls.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m quite sure that had I been a mum in Malawi I would have experienced the heartbreak of either a stillbirth or handicapped chid due to complications.\u00a0\u00a0 I, myself, may well have died.<\/p>\n

\"Mother<\/a><\/p>\n

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The figures for under five year olds make even worse reading –<\/p>\n

for every child under 5 in the UK that dies FOURTEEN die in Malawi.<\/p>\n

I cannot comprehend what it must be like to have a child die from malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea or AIDS.\u00a0\u00a0 My girls have only required the occasional visit to A&E for various accidents, oh, and day surgery for grommits for hearing problems.<\/p>\n

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I work for the NHS and much as I moan about the pressures on it, the shortage of GPs and nurses, and the problems faced by patients with long term conditions, poor prescribing and medicines waste, this is nothing compared to those faced in Malawi.<\/p>\n

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I can see from the newsletter that the progress made must be in no small part due to the support from FOSCiM and the team in Blantyre.\u00a0 The work not only encompasses training nurses in paediatrics but providing vital equipment, and indeed buildings for the care of sick children.\u00a0\u00a0 All things we tend to take for granted.<\/p>\n

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It makes me even more determined to spend two weeks of my annual leave working in the pharmacy, and to support FOSCiM via our Soroptimist Club.<\/p>\n

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