To save one human life is to save the whole humanity & hospitals are regarded as the life saving places in the world. On the contrary, if you have a round to the hospital in interior Sindh, you would lose your faith in the aforementioned dogma. The condition of majority of the hospitals is so pathetic that one can’t even imagine in this era of science & technology. Most of the hospitals lacks infrastructure needed for medical assistance. The wheel chairs & stretchers are found in pitiable condition, which can hardly be moved. The medicine facilities are only available at the medical stores available in the vicinity of hospitals. The oxygen masks are shifted to patient to patient which is an open violence of code of patient care.
Most of the doctors have completely forgotten the Hippocratic oath as many of them are busy in making money at their private medical centres.
The concerned health department must devise out a tangible & feasible plan for providing the basic necessities in hospitals & Doctors Monitoring Unit may also be activated to ensure the doctors’ presence in OPD timings.
Health is the basic right of a person. Without a sound body and sound mind a man cannot lead a happy life. It is imperative for a person to be in good health in order to live a life that has happiness engulfed within it. Would you ever be able to work hard if your health is falling? Would you be able to spend happy moments with your family if you are not healthy? Well! the answer to such questions is clearly a “No”. It is actually the duty of the government to make necessary arrangements so that each individual of a state may lead a healthy life. The Sindh province of Pakistan is facing a lot of health problems. There are a lot of ailments that are prevalent in this province that need to be addressed immediately so that the menace of ailments may be taken away from this province. Here are some main problems that this province is facing.
The kids of this age at Sindh are not as healthy as their forefathers used to be. The kids are a prey to many diseases. The main reason behind their being vulnerable towards the diseases is that they do not receive any vaccination. The Sindh government doesn’t make proper arrangements for the vaccination of the kids that in turn causes them to suffer dangerous diseases. Moreover, there is no clean water to be drunk by the kids that causes them a great number of ailments. To their ill fate, even the food is not clean as Sindh is the province with great number of industries that adds much to the pollution level of the cities and villages of Sindh.
The health facilities concerning pregnancy are too low in Sindh. There is no good facilities for the reproductive care at Sindh. Majority of the women of Sindh have to face serious problems in their pregnancies. Most of the backward areas of the Sindh are totally nill at maternity care. They lack health professionals and true knowledge about pregnancy. Every year, due to this problem, many of the women along with their fetuses die. In some of the cases, the doctors fail to save the new born baby and label that mishap as the decision of fate even though that is caused by their own lack of knowledge. Every year the population of Sindh Province is defied by the hepatitis. To be precise, about 2.5% people suffer from hepatitis B and 4.9% of the total population of the Sindh province suffer from hepatitis C. The Sindh government promised to give adequate medical facilities and treatment to the people infected with this heinous viruses but all of the patients did not receive any treatment. Out of 75,000 patients only 11,000 received the treatment. Here it is to be told that the Sindh government does not take any serious step to eradicate this menace.
Sajjad Hussain Cheehani
Agra, Sindh
