Good health equals good life

GOOD health leads to good life.
Personal health speaks a lot.
Our colourful plans, dreams and daily activities depend upon our health.
If our personal health is not good, our life will be miserable.
The tale of the journey of our life will be boring so sad.
If our health is not good, it will affect everything that we are attached to.
This can be our study, business, family, friends, fun times, etc.
It’s not the doctors’/ health workers or our elected leaders’ fault to lay the blame on them for not providing us with good health services.
Their awareness and services are second to none, except for those who doesn’t see and carry out their duties as the high calling in serving humanity.
Nowadays, with the great help in the use of technology countless resources about health measures are available on social media and other health educational websites at our finger tips.
Unless for those people who are living in the very marginalised remote places due to tough natural geographical features where the access to basic government services such as education and health lacks the most and the illiterate people.
However, our health is based on what we decides every day.
It depends on the type of food that we eat. The type of drink we drink.
The hours of good night rest. Our cleanliness. The type of friends we associate with.
The type of sanitation we live in. Our personal safety, how we take care of our safety from harm and dangers.
Most successes in life are parallel with healthy life style.
When we are healthy and happy we are in good mood to put the best effort in everything we do. Good health produces the chances of success, indeed.
By saying maybe if about 80 per cent of our total population are practicing healthy life-style.
I believe there will be less government funds allocated for health sector where the government can save and invest or use them in other much needed sectors such as education, agriculture etc.
Healthy life-style leads to long life expectancy.
It is proven that better health care and hygiene, healthier lifestyle, sufficient food and improved medical care are essential ways that leads to long life expectancy.
Therefore, we should say that our personal hygiene benefits our own health.
The habit of practicing healthy life style can be seen as a good way to minimises some risks of getting contracted with sexual transmitted infections (STI) such as gonorrhoea, syphilis, etc, and HIV/ AIDS.
The website of the National Library of Medicine stated that the recent published estimates suggests that Papua New Guinea has among the highest adult HIV prevalence in the Asia-Pacific estimated at 1.28 per cent among people aged 15-49 years in 2007 although more recent estimates suggest national prevalence may be closer to one per cent.
Therefore, it’s not that bad for us to prioritise good health that it will benefit the general community.
We should ask ourselves, am I a contributing factor to the growing STI and HIV/AIDS statistics in the country.
It is the individual responsibilities to make sure good health is prevail at all cost.
As the saying goes prevention is better than cure.
In accordance, “we can” move our country forward based on our ethical and healthy decisions that we have authority over it.
Let’s not put the sweat, tireless efforts and good deeds of our past, present and future visionary leaders in doing nothing.
Let’s think of what we will do for the country and not about what the country will do for us.

Vincent Tambure
Gama, Usino Bundi District
Madang