Factfulness hans5/9/2023 ![]() Hans reasoned that they couldn’t make that level of care standard treatment for the relatively small number of children who visited his district hospital, and with the time saved from treating patients at a ‘good enough’ level he could prevent many more of the 3,900 children expected to die in his district every year by training health workers, and vaccinating children. Hans provided the child with a feeding tube for oral rehydration, but his friend thought the baby deserved an intravenous drip, which would increase her chances of survival but take more time. When Hans Rosling, the TED talk phenomenon and professor of international health, was a young doctor in Mozambique in the 1980’s he was berated by a visiting friend and medic for not providing better care for a seriously ill child that been brought into his health clinic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Matthew Spencer reviews Hans Rosling’s posthumous manifesto ![]()
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