Dr Paul Farmer – bringing healing to remote places

Paul Farmer, a modern-day Albert Schweitzer and giant of public health,  who dedicated his life to bringing health care to the world’s poorest peoples in places like Haiti, Rwanda and Peru, has died at 62. He was described as “a compassionate physician and infectious disease specialist, a brilliant and influential medical anthropologist, and among the greatest humanitarians of our time – perhaps all time.”  He was instrumental in getting Aids and Ebola treatment