Save the future.

What can be deemed as the most precious asset of a country? The most valuable and vital asset of a country is the children of the country. The children who are going to lead tomorrow, who are going to erect a robust nation and are the future leaders of our country. They are the people who are going to enhance the productivity as well as the functioning of the country, who are going to replenish the country’s exigencies and who are going to ameliorate the working of the nation.

But there is a very ingenious aphorism in English which needs to be mentioned here. If you want good results you have to do consistent efforts. You have to work hard in order to produce good result. No pain no gain, you have to first work out hard in order produce the exceptional think tanks of tomorrows.

To prepare exceptional leaders who will rein the country tomorrow, the country needs to shed out humongous amount of money on two factors. The two factors that can great mould the future of a nation are

1)      Health amenities

2)      Education

The need of the hour for India is to invest enormously in these two sectors. These two factors can carve out a new future for the country. These two sectors can produce wonderful unprecedented consequences.

 To achieve good outcomes India needs to invest heavily on children. Various efforts by the government of India, state governments, NGOs have been commenced to help the country move up in these two sectors. Various researches have been funded and various types of schemes have also been implemented by the Government here in order to allocate children good education and health qualities. But still many lacunae are left in the implementation of these procedures which is the bone of contention vexing the country.

Science is the only thing through which every bad thing can be cured and treated. All problems and obstacles can be eradicated from their roots with the aid of science. India needs to do much work than it is doing the Child health sector. Innovation and efficiency in Child health sectors can result in tremendous growth and can help the country sustain its position in the list of advances and wonderful countries. Improved health care services can result in good working of the country. India is having the largest number of births in the world with more than 2.62 crore births per year and India can get out wonderful results from this thing. But now let’s address the real situation of the country. In India around 13 Lakh children die before even watching their first birthday and around 16 Lakh toddlers die before completing five years of their life. But the thing that we all need to emphasize on is, why do we have to face such a huge number of demises of children. Is there something very perilous and non-curable? Inevitably not! You would be very pissed off to know that the causes due to which the children die are in-toto preventable. In India, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea together account for a significant fraction of Child deaths in the country. There are more

  

Rotavirus(in picture)

hospitalisations of children due to these ailments more than any other diseases. These two diseases are ubiquitous in children in India and is the cause behind the obliteration of the lives of children.

 

Diarrhoea is caused due to various pathogens. It is most commonly spread due to contaminated water supply and unhygienic food and person-to-person contact. Rich children in India are not adversely affected by this disease as they get good and hygienic nutrition and good health care services but the pauper children born to impoverished parents are very much prone to Diarrhoea as most of these children reside in slum areas where good healthcare condition and sanitation are not allocated to the people. Poor sanitation is there which leads to contamination of food and water and entry of pathogens in the body of children due to the affected food and water supply. Diarrhoea results in complete dehydration of body and acute severe diarrhoeas can be life-threatening too. One of the biggest problems of India i.e. Malnutrition, exaggerate the situation leading to more deaths as children suffering from Malnutrition are more likely to die and vulnerable to this life-snatching disease.

To address the issue of ailments like Diarrhoea we need a hygienic, safe and good water and food supply and also much emphasis needs to be put on the issue of sanitation. First of all the government needs to take the disease to a halt in less developed and poor areas and collectively should also work on eliminating the disease by accommodating proper treatment of the disease. Researchers lately found out that a harsh viral dangerous micro organism Rotavirus is the most common cause of the spread of Diarrhoea in children. Children who get adequate attention and ample healthcare services bear minor effects of Rotavirus but their less fortunate counterparts who are poor have to face the severe and life-threatening effects of the virus.

 

Pneumonia also takes place due to contaminated things. When children touch contaminated objects and then touch their eyes or nose, some harmful viruses enter their body and these viruses make their way to the lungs damaging the lungs resulting in their inflammation and thus finally causing pneumonia. In pneumonia the lungs’ are filled with fluids resulting in hindrances in the oxygenation and if not treated warily can result in death too.

Now what to do????

To reduce the deadly effects of diarrhea and pneumonia we need to reach out to all the children whether rich or poor with a comprehensive toolkit to prevent these diseases. The factors that can extenuate the diseases and can result in complete abolition of the ailments are breast-feeding, access to ORT and zinc supplementation.  According to a recent research exclusive breast feeding for initial six months can save the lives of many children. Exclusive breast feeding can result in the saving of lives of 02,10,000 Indian children who die every year. Countries which have introduced vaccines of Rotavirus and Pneumonia have observed a huge decline in the no. of hospitalizations and deaths caused due to the Diarrhea and could save around ₹100 crores in annual medical costs.

The only thing that India needs is ingenious implementation of the schemes and successful distribution of vaccines and medicines to curb the ailments so as to safeguard the children who die due to these diseases.

Jai Hind, jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti.