Comprehensive haemotherapy program for developing countries

Abstract

In the developing countries, the introduction of modern medicine and surgery, patterned after European models, and frequently irrelevant to the main indigenous problems, gradually occurred in the course of this century, but these clinical services developed in a haphazard fashion and were usually driven by monetary gain. Curative or symptomatic medicine predominated and was delivered by a few prestigious doctors whilst public health or primary health care were neither taught nor catered for.