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ER: Heal the World

[This blog entry is my post for participating in the Bloggers Unite - World Health Day event in 2009]

Bloggers Unite: World Heath Day 2009

I do believe that development in any society cannot occur unless people are safe. Hereby, there are many ways to reach this state of safeness and healthcare is one of these ways for healing the world through enhancing the health of humans worldwide.

Nevertheless, I felt sad after reading what is the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently published in the 2009 World Health Report for the occasion of preparing for the World Health Day 2009 (WHD), as the report mentioned a fact that death toll of 2008 was almost four times higher than the average annual toll for the seven previous years. [source: 2009 WHO-WHD English brochure in pdf format]

This piece of information should switch on a global red-alert for governments, NGOs and individuals regarding the situation of healthcare in our world generally and developing countries specially; hence, two important factors play the role in any healthcare process:

1. the safety of health facilities in terms of infrastructure, and;
2. the safety of health staff in terms of human resources.

In terms of infrastructure: it is important that facilities to be designed according to a structural code that ensure the safety of the buildings; the architectural solutions to ensure the smooth mobility of people either working there or being patients; and implementing the suitable devices that ensure the status of patients. Hereby, investing money in these projects is not luxurious; rather it is a must as it is direct investment in humans that Mankind shall benefit from.

Bloggers Unite: World Heath Day 2009; Gaza Crises

In terms of human resources: it is important to train doctors, nurses and emergency teams well in order to be ready for dealing with injured people either during emergency natural disasters or war-time and how to successfully implement the emergency plans, taking care of the ER teams by avoid placing obstacles to prevent them from working especially in the war-time and natural disasters, and mostly important to save their lives while they do their work.

Hereby, I recall good and bad examples for my elaborations. The good example was when relief agencies worked for saving victims of the 2005 South Asia Earthquake. In parallel, the bad example – that I cannot understand – is preventing the ER teams from working or even killing them like what happened – for example – during the Gaza Crises (2008-2009) as helping humans is supposed to be beyond political problems; civilians need to be saved, so just save them not to kill them!

You know what? My elaborations in this post can be summarized into one few words: love is the core of the process to heal the world because when people love each other they will care and vice versa indeed. Hereby, I recall when The Prophet Muhammad prohibited killing civilians but this is another story that needs a separate blog entry later.

In a nutshell, a true Muslim is the one who does not defame or abuse others; but the truly righteous one acts like a refuge for mankind in both their lives and their properties.

Related Quotes and Sayings

It is hope that maintains most of mankind. — Sophocles

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