The Hidden Crisis: When Healthcare Fails to Heal
Somewhere on a sun-scorched American sidewalk, a woman is walking, part of her spinal hardware pushing through her skin. This isn’t due to failed surgery — it’s the result of not having access to clean dressings, antibiotics, or a safe place to recover. The metal inside her back was meant to hold her spine together, but without proper follow-up care, her skin thinned, infection set in, and the hardware began to push outward.

Doctors call it “hardware exposure,” but the reality is far more human. It’s what happens when someone has to heal while living on the streets, fighting heat, dirt, and exhaustion alone. It’s a preventable crisis caused by a lack of care after surgery — a situation that most people never see, but emergency workers encounter far too often.

This isn’t just about surgery. It’s about the lack of healthcare, where rights exist only on paper.   #HealthcareForAll #HumanRights #EndHomelessness #RightToHeal #InvisibleCrisis