Since the 19th Century, modern medicine was introduced to the world and is still used today. Scientists still use the same process to get medicine to places where they are needed and to make things more efficient for healthcare workers and for patients. It’s important to get medicine to where they are needed. “Sub Saharan Africa bears 25% of the worlds deceased and only 3% the worlds health care workers,” says Susan Silbermann.

Health care workers have to carry big tasks on their shoulders; such as, certain health care worker (unnamed), works in the Ho Region of Ghana, which is 3 hours north of the capital. She works in a small clinic with no electricity or running water. To get her vaccines, she spends one hour on each bus stop. Vaccines need to be stored at specific temperatures to maintain effectiveness. This health care worker carries a cooler with her to carry the vaccines and the vaccines she carries go to women and children. Her enthusiasm for helping people in getting vaccinated is very admirable.

“Without the dedication of the health care workers like her, it’s very likely the communities of children won’t have the opportunities to be vaccinated,” commented Susan Silbermann.  Being very passionate when it comes to existing vaccines is vital and helps to understand the improvement of medicine. As until 2017, one vile of vaccine carried only one dose. Nowadays, one vial of vaccine carries four doses; therefore making it more efficient to bring treatments and cures to regions of deprivation The one vial-four dose can reduce storage space and minimize the shipping requirements.

Silbermann continues, “Innovations like this will help make it easier to get vaccines to children everywhere.”. This is a marker stone on medical history. With the creation of modern medicine, we now are able to send four times more care to those in strained circumstances.

Today, doctors are trying to raise awareness of healthcare workers. This system is called Train the Trainer. In this, medical knowledge is spread through smaller communities who have disadvantages when it comes to getting the vaccines they need. AMP and WHO started this program and started with a small group of health care workers and are trained by professionals. Train the Trainer has been strengthening relations with big companies, it’s essential to a bigger and brighter future. These companies also have their own business relations with other stakeholders. With this help, the system plans to spread knowledge of medicine worldwide. And once the healthcare workers are trained, the next level of health care workers will be trained by them. This procedure helps raise medical consciousness in places like Sub Saharan Africa. Spreading the understanding of medicine can help in finding cures for other diseases and viruses.

”I’ve often said that our job doesn’t end when we make a vaccine and ship it to a distribution center; what good is a vaccine if it isn’t reaching the people who need it the most?”, Susan Silberman states in further detail. The Train the Trainer, Susan Silberman, and others alike have the commitment and focus on transporting proper medicine and will hopefully lead to better health to everyone around the world. Maybe one day, we can find a cure for all.

                                                                                           -Aya Muthanna