Magdi Yacoub Quotes

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

Rich men do not lack physicians, but the poor can rarely afford good ones. We must pay special attention to them.

If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make.

In the United States, I feel like polio doesn't exist, but it very much does. I've been to many countries and saw how lucky we are that we can go straight to the doctor or the ER in the U.S. I would love for moms in other countries to not experience my fears.

The very rich, very poor, and the very famous get the worst medical care. The very rich can buy it, the very poor can't get any, and the very famous can dictate it.

If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get sick, and God help you if you do.'

Those of us referred to food banks are the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognise that something has gone seriously wrong.

Too many upstate New Yorkers have to drive 30 minutes or more to see a doctor.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.

90 percent of children with leukemia can be cured, but 90 percent of the children with that disease in the world’s 25 poorest countries die from it.

The world is rich enought today that the idea of millions of children dying of disease is unacceptable. We have the resouurces and know how to prevent this.

Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.

What's exciting to me is figuring out something that has eluded us for so long: How do we make sure every single person can see a doctor in this country? That's really exciting to me.

You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.

There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.

No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.

Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.

The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don't have a family doctor.

Free quality health facilities have been made available to the children of the poor families through Daanish School System.