Anghel, an experienced Romanian midwife, has joined the star-studded ranks of people whose portraits have been taken by famed photographer Rankin. It was done as part of a billboard campaign celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the U.K.’s National Health Service, which gives residents free health care. Her success story as one of 600,000 Romanians in Britain is at the same time a telling sign of how the deficiencies of her home country’s health care system and the bleak prospects for a better future for herself and her family have left huge gaps in Romanian society and its health care system. Would she consider going back to her homeland, which she said she loves and promotes as much as she can? “I wish something would change with the Romanian system, but I am so sure it’s not going to change,“ she said.

Source: thestar August 10, 2020 09:52 UTC