Savannah Venice Manzano - Diagnostic Radiology

 


Diagnostic radiology focuses on using imaging in order to identify a disease or injury within a patient's body, including MRI, X-ray, and CT scans, and helps play a positive part in improving health outcomes overall. However, diagnostic imaging continues to be a difficult issue for most groups across the world, limiting the potential for those who need it to treat them.

People in low-income communities undergo delayed treatment due to not having the technology for basic imaging services. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly two-thirds of people worldwide don’t have access to these services, a gap that further separates patients to global health care. 

A study from the National Library of Medicine highlights this issue in Tanzania, where researchers found out that government run hospitals, or public sectors, have 5.7 X-ray machines per million, a major contrast to the recommendation of 20 per million as stated by WHO. Comparing that to South Africa, a middle-income country, who has 19.6 X-rays per million, the difference between the two is severe. 

In order to combat this situation, organizations such as RAD-AID International and WHO donated necessary equipment, such as portable X-ray machines, and safety training to local radiologists to lessen the divide of public health care. Outside low-income communities, tele-radiology provides specialists access to analyze scans from areas that can’t, increasing expert diagnoses. 

With the help of health organizations, non profits, and governments combined, patients all around the world, regardless of where they live, can have access to life saving treatment. 

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