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Health conditions in Latin America

• Last year I've spent some time in Colombia as an exchange student.

• I've lived there for almost half a year and this experience has changed my entire personality.

• Within the first week I experienced such insane things which one barely can put into words.

• On the 3rd day I was alone at home (I shared a flat with 3 fellow colombians) in my apartment in a cordoned-off area lying in a southern neighborhood of Cartagena de Indias next to the Carribean Sea.

• It was around 9 pm and out from nowhere someone just cut electricity and women began to cry outside my window.

• The whole 130 square meters big flat was dark, I wasn't armed and thought there was a robbery going on.

• In the end nothing happened and current came back after a while.

• My second unforgettable experience was a food intoxication during the first weekend.

• Fortunately one of my flatmates was at home this time and called the ambulance which took me to a nearby hospital.

• This was the first time where I really appreciated the european health care system since in Colombia it's still very sketchy.

• The doctors refused to treat ma unless I handed them out some considerable amount of money.

• The hygienic state at this place was just bad and people with serious injuries waited hours for their treatment.

• Despite of all that, these were the most amazing 5 months of my whole life.