1. THE RIGHT TO
MEDICAL CARE
By:Lexi

2. WHY IS MEDICAL CARE IMPORTANT TO
ME?
My right is the right to medical care
It is important to me because if you have
medical care it can basically save your life!

3. KYTHE FOUNDATION
 Kythe is a foundation that helps children who have different
diseases such as; leukemia, cancer ect.
 In Kythe they also give them the right to play, and education
 They help the kids to over come their fears of the hospital and
teach them that the hospital is a safe place.

4. VACCINES
 Babies and children need to be vaccinated and immunized
regularly to prevent diseases and infections like measles and
polio-unfortunately in developing countries most people can’t
afford to get vaccinated.
 Sadly over three million babies die each year from vaccine
preventable diseases
 More than 34 million children are NOT immunized to prevent
diseases
(world watch/UNICEF)

5. DIFFERENT DISEASES
 There are so many different diseases that can kill so many people
like:
 Measles – is a very contagious disease caused by a virus
 Leukemia – is a type of cancer in the blood or bones
 Poliomyelitis- affects nerves and can lead to paralysis
 Cancer-is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body
 Malnutrition-is when a baby doesn’t have enough of the right food
for he/she to eat so their body becomes really skinny but their belly
becomes big.
 Doctors and scientists are trying to find a cure for all of these
diseases and we hope they can!!!
(UNICEF, World Watch)

6. THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO DO
NOT HAVE MEDICAL CARE
 In America over 54 million people don’t have good health care!-
and any hospital in America and many other countries will not give
the treatment to the people unless they have the money to pay for
it.
 In the Ninth Ward there is a hospital with over 1,300 patient files
and about 95% of them don’t have the money to cover the cost…
 11 million children under the age of five die because of
Malnutrition
 Measles kill 10,000 Angolan children each year
 More than one billion people all around the world do NOT have
access to medical care…
(UNICEF, A life like mine)

7. The right to medical care is VERY
important and EVERYONE deserves it
no matter how wealthy they are!!!

8. INTERNET SOURCES
 http://barryrutherford.hubpages.com/hub/Health-Care-everyone-
needs-it-everyone-deserves-it slide 8,7
 http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/13296/column-everyone-
deserves-right-to-medical-treatment slide 7
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukemia slide 6
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002536/ slide 6
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002375/ slide 6
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002267/ slide 6
 http://kythe.org/about.html slide 2
 http://childrensrightsportal.org/ slide 7

9. BOOK SOURCES
A Life Like Mine-UNICEF- D.K/UNICEF-page
37-43
World Watch-Steven Maddocks-Raintree-page
24-29
UNICEF-Deborah A. Grahame-World Almanac
Library/UNICEF-page 14

10. PICTURE SOURCES
 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~gerla22f/classweb/website/images/hu
man-rights-every-human-has-rights.jpg slide one
 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9ZphwjBy4IA/TLex8zAl4vI/AAAAAAAA
CFQ/L2dEOC6DtYE/s1600/kythe+foundation.jpg slide 3
 http://www.stuartduncan.name/wp-
content/uploads/2011/01/vaccines_injection.jpg slide 4
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care slide 7
 http://emarketinguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/earn-
huge-money-online.jpg slide 8
 http://inlog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/poor.gif slide 8

11. Thank you for listening to my
presentation!!!