14.10.2023
Ininnawa: Indonesia’s Remote Island Nurses
A retired nurse volunteers to return to remote Indonesian islands to help her patients during a healthcare crisis. The world’s largest archipelago, Indonesia, relies on dedicated nurses and volunteers to deliver care to patients living on remote islands. Indonesia has more than 17,000 islands. Nurse Rabiah works for long periods away from her family on the islands of the Flores Sea, 30 hours away by sea. On those remote Indonesian island, Nurse Rabiah teaches children the basics of how to clean their teeth, bringing a smile to their faces. But it is time for her to take a step back from her duties. Rabiah passes on everything she knows about nursing and the islands to her daughter, Mimi. Once resentful of her mother’s absence, Mimi finds herself separated from her young family as she is drawn to the islanders’ calls for care. In Indonesia, 265 million people are spread amongst more than 17,000 islands. Managing the healthcare system in the world’s biggest archipelago is a nightmare. An out of sight, out of mind approach has failed her people. “Rabiah and Mimi” explores the difficulties the world’s largest archipelago faces in providing adequate health care to its people, through the story of a family who have dedicated their lives to this pursuit in the remote islands of the Flores Sea.
Credit: ALJAZEERA
Credit: ALJAZEERA
Poverty deprives people of adequate education, health care and of life's most basic necessities- safe living conditions (including clean air and clean drinking water) and an adequate food supply. The developed (industrialized) countries today account for roughly 20 percent of the world's population but control about 80 percent of the world's wealth.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
