Page 6 - The Michigan Daily -- Monday, September 26, 1988 Doctor Doctor talks of poor conditions Continued from Page 1 tors per year, now we produce 500 new doctors per year." The main change though, and the cause of overburdening of the facilities, is the easy access of health care to all the population. Before the revolution, people, especially the poor, were discouraged from visiting doctors. Today, 60 percent of the patients seen at Luna's hospital come from the rural areas. BUT THE war with the contras has greatly hindered efforts to improve Nicaraguan health care. "We are afraid to go to certain areas for fear of contra attacks," Luna said. He said several clinics in small towns have been sacked in contra raids, and the war-caused isolation of remote villages has increased malnutrition, the source of most ailments. In addition, the war casualties - civilians, contras, and government soldiers - put a greater demand on the hospital, often taking 40 to 50 beds each month at Luna's hospital. With the bilateral cease-fire agreed to in March, and the unilateral cease- fire observed by the Sandinistas since May, the number of casualties has been significantly reduced; only one to two beds each month are for casualties now. These casualties are mostly civil- ians who have stepped on unex- ploded grenades or landmines. JESSICA GREENE/Dolly Dr. Andrew Zwiefler, left, thanks Nicaraguan Dr. Javier Luna, right, for his talk on September 22 about the hospital he runs in Ann Arbor's sister city, Juigalpa. Standing at middle is medical student and translator Gustava Del Toro. Greeti cards braill4 KALAMAZOO (AP) - With something as simple as a greeting card. Truesillia Ruth Shank hopes to help bridge the gap between the worlds of the sighted and the blind. "It seems so unfair that a blind person should miss out on the sim- ple, little pleasures of life," said Mrs. Shank, sitting in the living room of her modest home that doubles as the office for her 7-month-old card com- pany, Sucurre Greetings. Sucurre is an Old French word meaning "to as- sist." "Can you imagine being 30, 40, or 50 years old and having to wait for someone to read a stack of Christmas. cards to you? Or not being able to go into a store and pick out an anniver- sary card for your wife or a birthday card for your child?" she asked. The inspiration for Sucurre Greet- ings, which Mrs. Shank owns with her husband, came while she was working on an advertising project with a blind businessperson. "He was doing things I couldn't do even with my sight," she said. "It just didn't seem right that he needed someone to go to a store with him just to pick out a card." Pollack Continued from Page 1 Pursell, a six-term Republican member of Congress, never accepted his invitation to the debate, spon- sored by the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament, member Ali- son Hine said. Pollack cited a newsletter called Business Executives for National Security in which a Defense De- partment procurement director said $30-45 billion is wasted each year. The newsletter also said the Pen- tagon's inspector general is investi- gating over 300 fraud cases in 59 of the Pentagon's 100 largest contrac- tors. Congress should "critically evaluate and scrutinize everything that comes before it," Pollack said, endorsing three of the newsletter's solutions to the Pentagon's pro- curement problems: competitive buying of equipment; testing equip- ment before buying it; and impeding potential conflict-of-interest relationships. Pollack also discussed economics and her fears for the future. "The rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and the middle has been squeezed," she said, questioning whether today's young people will be the first generation who will be less well off than their parents. "What has he accomplished?" Pollack asked, referring to Pursell. When her question was met with si- lence, she said that silence, meaning nothing, was the correct response. "The greatest crime of any elected official is silence," she then said, adding that she learned to speak out, question, and criticize silence during her tenure on the Ann Arbor Board of Education in the early 1980s. She also poked at Pursell for flip- flopping his position on some is- sues, particularly aid to the Nicaraguan contras, but lodged spe- cific attacks at Pursell for at first voting for two issues -- a bill to provide funding to the Transporta- tion Department and the Civil Rights Restoration Act, passed ear- lier this year - and then voting to uphold a presidential veto of both the bills. S ing get Because of the limited market, Braille greeting cards have not been manufactured by established card companies, said Adam Ash, publis er of the Gift Reporter, a trade publi- cation for the gift industry. Some rehabilitation agencies have been known to sell some Braille cards at Christmas, and others translate greeting cards to Braille when re- quested. "At best, what you've been able to get up until now is a card for a sighted person that's been Brailled., These cards are designed specificall for a visually impaired person, but are still appealing to a sighted person as well," said Paul Ponchillia, a pro- fessor in the Department of Blind Rehabilitation at Western Michigan University. Ponchillia, who is blind, helped the Shanks design the cards. The Shanks hope the pastel colors and simple but elegant designs em- bossed on the front of the cards wi appeal to a wide audience. Underneath the design is a description of the object in Braille. Inside, Braille ap- pears under the message. ATE AND HILL 040 J EAT PIZZA nd WEDNESDAY 7 5 6:00p.m. to 9:00p.m. S1 Call 764-0557 ? ( WHAT'S HAPPENING GET YOUR FUTURE OFF THE GROUND -. 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