Ghana:

• 47% physician exit rate; leaving behind less than qualified people to care for patients
• Physician to patient ratio - 1:20,000
• No diagnostic tools in 75% rural health clinics
• 60% of the population live in rural areas
• Preventable diseases cause 70% of deaths

Democratic Republic of Congo:

• 75% have no access to health care
• Physician to patient ratio  - 1:16,000
• 2004 - 1 million Congolese died of preventable diseases; 2700/day
• 45% deaths are children <5 yrs old

Nigeria:

• Less than 50% of the population have access to organized health care services
• 800,000 children die per year due to preventable diseases; 2100/day

India:

• 260 million people below poverty level
• Healthcare unavailable to 60-70% of the population living in rural villages; preventable disease flourishes
• 2.3 million children < 5  years old die annually due to lack of simple health care measures
• “Basic health care is almost non-existent in rural areas”  Dr. Amit Sen Gupta, spokesman, Public Health Campaign