There's something I always wondered about 3rd world medicine. If her surgery was $1125 and the average person makes $0.90/day (less than $1) that means her surgery cost 3.42ish year's wages.

Could I get the same surgery here in the USA for $171233 (median income in the US assumed about $50,000)?

Is there some sort of balancing feedback function thats stretching the cost of a certain level of medical care to a certain predictable multiple of a local year's median wage?

It would at least be an interesting rabbit hole to descend.