Will Corona Patients Get Health Justice?

Will Corona Patients Get Health Justice?

Health justice is a fundamental human right. It gives safety and dignity to everyone, regardless of caste, creed and status. It gives accessibility to affordable and equitable hospital care for all. Taking advantage of a patient's condition, compulsion, weakness and helplessness  is nothing but exploitation. It doesn't ensure health justice. In such circumstances, Will Corona Patients Get Health Justice?

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Corona Leeches

Corona business has turned more dangerous than corona itself. Covid-19 was a result of many centuries of mutations in the virus. Corona strains are both harmful and harmless. They infect different organs in different forms. The immunity against different strains is also different in different persons. So, corona virus isn't uniform in causing infections.  That means the strains may or may not be cruel. But, corona leeches are always cruel and harmful. They suck both money and peace from a patient's life, even life sometimes. Once the person’s family suffers such a mental and physical stroke, it may not be in a position to afford balanced food and post-covid medicines to the patient. If the same conditions prevail, will corona patients get health justice? 

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Kinds of  Corona Leeches

There are three kinds. One kind is seen in government covid centres. The second kind in unlicensed private Covid centres. The last one in corporate Covid centres. Ofcourse, you can't generalise all centres so, yet there are good and kind ones also.  Will corona patients get health justice?, if all centres are alike. 

Poor Man's Corona Centres

Patients from lower, middle and upper middle income groups are admitted here. They lack sufficient equipment, beds, medicines and more conspicuously staff. They are not in a position to accommodate, treat and attend to the needs of corona patients. Here the patient suffers and dies mostly due to fear of psychosis rather than the actual infection. The environment, the attitude of the staff and insufficient medical care kill the patient in advance, who otherwise might have survived by luck.  Will corona patients get health justice, in such circumstances? Consequently, the majority of patients from middle and upper middle class families run away to private hospitals, after seeing the way how corona patients die, without proper care and treatment.

Middle Class Corona Centres

The most popular kind is that of unlicensed private hospitals. The cost of treatment here is around ₹ 15,000/- per day. Patients from middle and upper middle class families are admitted here. Though equipment and staff are better, oxygen supply and less experienced staff are the limitations. Here too ten percent of patients may die due to many problems. Will corona patients get health justice, in such circumstances? 

Big Man's Corona Centres

These centres are exclusively for the richer and the richest.  Though well trained staff and state of the art technology available here, face to face care is lacking. Instead remote care is provided in many circumstances.  That's how the corona treatment varies, as per the class, though not per colour, caste, and creed. Will corona patients get health justice, in such circumstances? 

Reasons for Exploitative Treatment

One thing we have to think and analyse why it's so? Unions, corruptive employees, lack of responsibility in local, state and central government authorities are reasons for low standard treatment and unlicensed centres. Super specialities thrive due to  prosperous shareholders in bureaucracy, business forces and top politicians. Will corona patients get health justice, in such circumstances? 

Hope for Health Justice

Prevention is better than cure. Take vaccines in time, exercise regularly and take a balanced diet. That's how you can prevent corona leeches from devouring your blood. The other ray of hope is honest and humanistic volunteers to raise the voice against injustice and compel the concerned authorities to mend their ways to rebuild confidence among masses. You can see how some organisms are striving in this direction. 30 Organizations Defending the Right to Health

Why Are Family Planning And Population Control Not Serving The Purpose?

Since Malthus so many scientists,  economists and planners have been introducing different family planning methods and schemes to control population. Reason is limited natural resources may not be sufficient to ever growing population. And according to them this will also lead to do a lot of mining, deforestation, killing of wildlife, refining of mineral ores, manufacturing, transportation, use of hydrocarbons, petroleum, petrochemical products, etc. This inturn need a lot of electricity. Electricity needs thermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, solar or wind energy projects. They in turn need a lot of forest clearance and so on. The result is different sorts of pollution - chemical,  noise and light pollution.

According to economists, industrialists and scientists population growth brings different kinds of problems to humanity especially pollution and degenerative diseases also. Besides this water crisis another problem. Food production and supply another issue. All these reasons make anyone believe that population control is must. But what about consumption control? Does a family of three members need a house that can accommodate thirty or three hundred members? Should we allow people to construct houses according to monetary capacity of a person or quantum of loans a bank can sanction?  Does government suggest children per a family according to reproductive capacity of the couple?

Why shouldn't government control sizes of houses according to the sizes of families? Small houses need less material for construction,  less resources for maintenance and less money for both. So we can effectively control deforestation,  wildlife destruction,  pollution, damage of human body organs, diseases and deaths. As the greed is controlled different ways for bribery,  corruption, hawalas, scams, etc can be effectively closed.

In addition to above advantages the land saved due to small houses can be used to grow herbs, bushes and trees of multiple use. The members of the family get an opportunity to grow fresh uncontaminated fruits,  vegetables, fish, poultry and cows. They get sufficient sunlight, tree shade and cool breeze. And a great space and time to involve in physical activities too. Instead of favouring business companies and industrialists to grow the government and its great institutions should start thinking about conservation of biodiversity in wilderness and also the growth of biodiversity around human habitats. People can start spending time in gardens, breathing fresh air and watching birds around instead of being suffocated in indoor pollution throughout the life!

But She's Still Smarter Than Her Daughter!

As the first birds were heard  a peasant woman used to wake up early to imbibe the silvery glow of moonlight for her sharp eyesight and cool fresh breeze for her strong health. She daily used to heat water on the bright flames in the cool dusky hours for her own bathing and also for her husband and for her only female child. Before golden beams of morning sun shone dews on grass, she used to sprinkle water and sweep all across the mud floor in front of her thatched hut. She was a strategic volunteer to serve the entire household, birds and farm animals through her daily noble chores. 

Neither the members of her family nor the farm animals never had any complaint against her menial services. A few acres of green paddy fields and vegetable plots hardly infested with weeds and perched for want of water in her regular attendance. An ideal woman of my native hamlet. She's now famous for educating and facilitating her only female child to raise to a dignified position. But the talk is that she is still smarter at her fifties than her daughter at thirties. The peasant woman still looks more agile and younger than the highly educated and posh software techie. It's really amazing!

The eye-catching makeup with branded cosmetics no longer keep her daughter's  face soft and smooth but with early wrinkles of ageing along with dizziness, headache and ever falling thin hair. On the other hand the peasant mother's skin is so fair and shiny and hair so dark and thick that one can guess a lot of facial creams, branded soaps and shampoos might have done the job. No that's wrong. Shikakai (traditional fruit for hair), soapnuts and turmeric have been her lifelong cosmetics. No money and no side effects! Very simple, natural, but beautiful!

The posh looking young lady's very happy and content to shed every rustic feature from her life. She often feels proud of that much development from a poor rustic background. She doesn't need poor-men's food anymore. Plenty of money is there to spend on MNC eatables like burgers, pizzas, cakes, candy bars, cookies,  pastries, ice-creams, fast food, processed meat, colas and sodas. She has profitably put on her weight to get higher number on the scale. The chubby lady has definitely misshapen her physique to be called a landwhale. She's a little bit discouraged and frustrated along with a number of modern medical complaints. But she's a lot of money to consult superspeciality doctors too. On the other hand the rustic mother has a firm body structure unlike that of her daughter's bad loose skin. Some may guess that firmness of her body might be due to super foods provided by her daughter. No, can't be adapted by her. It's unbelievable and shocking that she's still on green leafy vegetables, fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, plenty of milk, jaggery, millets, pulses, ragi balls and jowar flat breads.

The modern techie may be on weight loosing job also! Contrarily to that her mother hasn't find any need to do all those regular exercises, special jogging, gym or yoga sessions. Walking across fields to fetch water, running behind  tendered animals, cutting grass, watering fields,  grinding or pounding grains have been said to be the secret of her fitness, as she hasn't yer been the proud possessor of modern electronic gadgets. A day long energy spending activities are always there. Very hard to believe! No obesity, dizziness, lethargy and immobility complaints. No breathing, bowl, cardio-vascular, liver, pancreatic, kidney or neurological disorders. No complaints of arthritis as she still uses to walk and run on earth unlike that of her daughter on glossy marble flooring of international standards. No sleeping disorders too as she's addicted to sleep in the cool breeze blown across by waving tree branches on the hillside. No need of infective air conditioners unlike that of her daughter. No money or no extra time needed to spend for that ever-energetic and ever-healthy fitness.

But one thing is that the modern techie is sacrificing her health, money and time for the development of the nation along with contribution to the growth of MNCs, big malls and super markets. She has not only developed herself but also a part of the modern development. The problem is that the peasant woman has neither developed so far nor a part of the moden development. And she yet doesn't possess any electronic or plastic money, modern electronic gadgets, branded dresses, posh bungalows, vehicles and gym or yoga facilities. Whatever it might be the talk is that she's still smarter than her daughter!