Burn, The Hidden Global Public Health Epidemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled burn as the "hidden global public health epidemic," with 95 percent of people affected living in low- and middle-income countries, and 70 percent of those affected being children. Burn is also one of the top five global causes of child death. Ethiopia, a low- and middle-income country, has just two burn units in the capital, with a total of 38 beds for a population of over 100 million people, and only eight of those beds are for