It only takes a spark to get the fire going.
As World Health Day unfolds before us again, it is a gentle reminder to re-dedicate ourselves to the growing burden of diseases and to find ways to make healthcare more affordable, more meaningful and more reachable to all corners of the world.
We live in times where no one really knows the future of a Race, so well protected by medicines. When one form of disease goes, another emerges. This calls for a more solid approach and a more amicable approach towards health.
The Government spending on GDP in many countries needs a reconsideration once more. Health will need to be placed on the top-most tables of governance and it will need to be led by doctors and not people who may not know the best of healthcare. They can always form part of a panel and task-force to brainstorm the deliberations.
While we cannot remove our focus from Maternal and Child Mortality, we will also need to build a growing bridge for Communicable and non communicable diseases. The on-going commitments of NGO's and other concerned organizations need to be strengthened under a common platform through a committed Health Ministry in every country.
Doctors need to be trained in Medical indemnity and medical insurance and micro insurance formats so that , their decisions towards patient care can be thought of in these directions.
Dedicated Medical students should be involved in Health reform policies. Pharmaceutical companies can have their profits through honest commerce, but let it also be more altruistic towards society.
It behoves of every Healthcare person to give back to society what society cannot ever give you. It is a clarion call to meet this end in view.
Wish you a meaningful day.
Dr Edmond Fernandes,
Founder and CEO,
Health Concern Foundation(R).
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