Health they say is wealth. There is no activity that can function maximally when conducted by people in an impaired state of health. One of the welfare issues which should be the priority of government is to improve the hospital facilities from which we can obtain medicare to sustain a healthy body.
Unfortunately, the government at all levels have failed to discharge this all important services to its citizens. The budgetary provisions for health are so abysmal and even still end up in private pockets. It is therefore not difficult to understand why the rate of death in our society occurs at such an alarming rate especially in our rural environments where health education is also poor.
The cost of obtaining treatment in private clinics is also not affordable for many. The privileged class would instead undertake medical tourism for themselves and family while the masses suffer. In the absence of little or no government support we have no alternative than to take our destiny in our hands and adopt all preventive measures to sustain a healthy productive body.
The challenges of coping with the demands of life have put many under serious pressure which predispose them to over work themselves. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has designed work to recommend eight hours of labour as appropriate for a worker. In between a rest period of one hour called break is intertwined.
Anything beyond this is assumed as abuse of labour and he is usually compensated through over time. But beyond the reward for the extra time put in what we are drawing out here is that there is a maximum period allowed by law beyond which it becomes dangerous subjecting the body to excess labour. But the common experience in our world of work is loss of manpower through stress. People are constantly burning themselves out without rest; the result is sudden break down and death.
Whatever health conditions we find ourselves is simply a reflection of how much we care for our bodies. If we actually value our bodies, we would refrain from those indulgences that damage our bodies.
A blend of right foods, clean environment, exercises, right thinking (always staying on the positive side of life), regular breathing exercises and regular tests to check any malfunctioning organs could be the basics we need to start us up on a good stead.
Regularly before we drive off we routinely check for water, oil, battery water adequacy in addition to other indicators that may likely affect the usage of the car. A causal check indicates that in more than ninety per cent of the cases we hardly check for the adequacy of water, blood, mineral elements etc in his own body. Most of the ailments that attack and kill us do not just strike.
As foreign bodies, when they are introduced they take time to survive, incubate and fester until they become landlords. There is no how their presence would not trigger some kind of warning because naturally they create a distortion effect. It is either we chose to ignore the warning, procrastinate or are simply ignorant of what is happening to us.
News Echo warns that to stem further loss of lives through sudden occurrences there is need for us take our health in our hands especially where the government has failed in its responsibility. Deaths occurring through spikes in blood pressure (silent killer) can be contained through regular health checks. We only need to be wiser. Life indeed has no duplicate.
