{"id":7682,"date":"2022-06-08T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7682"},"modified":"2022-06-08T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:46:57","slug":"swipe-right-to-save-a-life","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/pt\/swipe-right-to-save-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Swipe right to save a life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"standfirst\" class=\"article__standfirst\">A chance meeting on a minibus in Costa Rica inspired a young American to start crowdfunding healthcare for people all over the world. So what happens when Silicon Valley meets some of the world\u2019s poorest countries? Andrew Hankinson went to Haiti to find out.<\/h4>\n<aside class=\"article__aside\">\n<div class=\"article__aside__section article__share-buttons\" role=\"group\">\n<div class=\"share-buttons\" role=\"group\">\n<p>In the flight to Haiti I sit with a guidebook and read about raucous street music, voodoo ceremony etiquette, and the beauty of rice and beans. On the flight home I\u2019ll scroll through a spreadsheet of dead children: \u201cThe patients who died before surgery are in tab 6,\u201d the email will say. Six days is a long time in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>I land in the capital, Port-au-Prince, at lunchtime on Friday and take a taxi to St Damien Hospital, where I meet Owen Robinson. In an examination room, he introduces me to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ololchildrens.org\/dr-michael-crapanzano-md-mhcm-pediatric-cardiology\">Michael Crapanzano<\/a>, who\u2019s examining a girl with kidney cancer and a huge swollen abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is a paediatric cardiologist who lives in Baton Rouge but regularly comes to Haiti to do echocardiograms \u2013 ultrasound scans of the heart \u2013 for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haiticardiac.org\/\">Haiti Cardiac Alliance<\/a>, a nonprofit organisation co-founded by Owen in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Owen is 36 years old and lives in Vermont. He used to work for the Clinton Health Access Initiative and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pih.org\/\">Partners in Health<\/a>, a nonprofit health organisation. Owen has a degree in political science and government, and a Master\u2019s in international security policy \u2013 both from Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen American cardiologists volunteer for Owen. They come for a few days and see dozens of patients, mostly children. If a patient needs surgery, Owen arranges to fly them to a place where it can happen \u2013 usually\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthcitycaymanislands.com\/about\/health-city\/\">Health City Cayman Islands<\/a>\u00a0on Grand Cayman, where surgeons operate on children for free. Some go to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Today Owen is taking notes for Michael. The girl with kidney cancer has a healthy heart. She leaves. A little boy needs an operation. Owen tells his mum in Creole. She leaves, smiling. Owen speaks to another mum, who he heard was talking about killing her baby. Michael examines a boy with a hole in his heart and says he\u2019s \u201cinoperable\u201d. The mum doesn\u2019t smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the United States it would have been fixed in six months,\u201d Michael tells me after she leaves.<\/p>\n<p>A medic asks Owen and Michael to go to the emergency room. Michael carries his echo machine. It\u2019s like a chunky laptop, but heavy, and Michael lugs it with him from the States for every trip.\u00a0A woman with a swollen head holds a baby with a swollen head, but she\u2019s not his mum \u2013 the baby was abandoned this morning. A fat baby in a crib breathes fast and heavy. Some of the mums look at me like I might help, but I can\u2019t, so I write notes to feel less useless: \u201cOwen has short hair and is wearing a black t-shirt with white chinos. Michael\u2019s wearing glasses, grey trousers and a dark blue scrub top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, a medic asks Michael and Owen to do two echoes in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. One is on a baby boy who\u2019s being looked after by a woman from an orphanage. He\u2019s wrapped in a blanket and has a disfigured arm. He\u2019s trying to turn over. He looks at me. \u201cHey, little dude,\u201d I say. His heart is fine. He\u2019s malnourished and covered in sores. I write more notes.<\/p>\n<p>At 5.30pm we get in Owen\u2019s rented 4&#215;4. He drives along the potholed streets of Port-au-Prince, past food shacks and UN trucks, past a line of people dancing in the street, to the Marriott hotel ($159 a night). Armed guards close the gate behind us. Owen and Michael have dinner with another cardiologist who\u2019s joining us tomorrow, but my head\u2019s dropping from 48 hours with no sleep, so I go to bed and try to remember why it is I came here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Truck-That-Went-Disaster\/dp\/1137278978\">The Big Truck That Went By<\/a><\/em>: How the world came to save Haiti and left behind a disaster \u2013 by Jonathan Katz.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mountains-Beyond-Quest-Farmer-Would\/dp\/0812973011\">Mountains Beyond Mountains<\/a><\/em>: The quest of Dr Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world \u2013 by Tracy Kidder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/88206434\">Video of\u00a0Chase Adam<\/a>\u00a0pitching Watsi at Y Combinator in 2013.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/06\/giving\/connections-to-a-cause-the-millennial-way-of-charity.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0story\u00a0<\/a>on how millennials do charity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 750px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.visual-paradigm.com\/share\/book\/swipe-right-to-save-a-life-zb97x8aqz?enforceShowPromotionBar=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7686,"template":"","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Design flipbooks online. 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