Making a difference, one physio at a time
Ben Gwilliam, APAM, asserts it’s great to think ‘I would love to go and volunteer my time overseas for even just a couple of weeks’, but it is difficult to make a lasting difference in the standards of healthcare long term.
‘It’s like a drop in the ocean. To truly make a difference, you need to train the people who live there, who speak the language and know the culture. If they can become well-trained physicians, and well-trained physiotherapists, that’s what is going to bring the standard of healthcare up,’ he says.
