This year alone 144 children under age of 5 have died of respiratory didease brought on the extreme cold in the high sierra 35 of the young victims where in puno,close to the place i will be flying next week. but what it gets me is the criminal indiference of local bureaucrats, who each year neglect to draw up a plan to bring aid to those suffering in the higest regions. Poor people who's children are dying of pneumonia strugglee to pay out from their own pockets for medicine and resppiratory maskitems for wich the local government has alrady receive funding.
