Health and hospitals

Mortality rates have declined in the last decade. This has been atributed to improvements and discoveries in medical science.

During the recent survey in the United States., it has been established that medical institutions are the greatest threat to human health. Every medicine, you consume has a side effect. Surgeries cause other problems or require follow-up medicines throughout life.

Many people contract new diseases from hospitals. Improved life span in the 20th Century was due to improved sanitation, nutrition and housing. The role of vaccination was a major breakthrough in medical science. It is true that antibiotics have helped save millions from dying of typhoid, cholera and dysentery. But many have been saved from contracting these diseases through improved water supply, hygiene, sanitation and pollution controls.

If cancer patients get an extra lease of life through radiation and chemotherapy, many more can be saved from cancer by measures to reduce air pollution and clean up of environment.

Research has shown that many ailments can be prevented and cured through the process of inner healing in which mind plays the leading role. Governments spend enormous amounts to sponsor health camps as a substitute for health care systems.

All this shows, if we care learn the lesson, that the best chance of leading a healthy and happy life lies in adopting a sensible life style with plenty of exercise, right nutrition and regular yoga for the mind and spirit.

A clean environment, safe water supply, proper drainage and waste disposal and control of pollution will certainly add to the life- span and we can reduce our upon medicines, money-hungry hospitals and doctors.

Therefore whether at home or outside, we must protect nature and keep the environment clean.

MANISHA MOHAN, X A

HOLY ANGELS' ANGLO-INDIAN H.S. SCHOOL, Chennai

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