RPF shares thought on World Health Day
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 06 2012:
While observance of World Health Day is an indication that the global fraternity has been striving for promoting a healthy society, Manipur had been struggling to provide even the basic health-care amenities for its citizens, rued the proscribed Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) .
sharing its thought on the observance tomorrow, which will be observed this year on the theme 'Ageing and continuing good health', an RPF statement issued by its Publicity secretary T Leisemba said that emphasis of both advanced and developing Nations is on the well-being of its citizens, particularly the elderly members.
Describing elderly citizens as an invaluable asset of a society, the proscribed outfit lamented that in addition to absence of an effective programme for longevity of the ageing populace, Manipur's elderly citizens are being exploited as vote banks under the Indian system of governance.
The fact that benefits under Old Age Pension Scheme are extended to the elderly citizens amid complaints of favouritism and controlled by the political class is a grim reminder that the only concern for the Government of India is to transform the scheme into vote generating mechanism, claimed Leisemba.
The outfit, nevertheless, called upon the younger generation especially the people working in the health sector to facilitate elderly citizens age under a convenient environment rather than suffer artificial inconveniences.
Iterating that World Health Day is a commemoration of constituting World Health Organisation at the first World Health Assembly in 1948 under the aegis of United Nations Organisation, RPF said the global initiative for promoting healthy living of the people has resulted in the eradication of some previously life-threatening diseases.
Conveying that the observance held every year on April 7 actually began from 1950, the outfit observed that global trend of human kind surviving longer than the expected age is an indication of successful implementation of health care facilities in most of the UN-member nations.
Contrary to priority on the well-being of its citizens by developed or developing nations Manipur had been a contradiction to the global norm, it reiterated and expressed hope that the observance tomorrow will imbibe sense of perseverance and sincere service to both the health service sector personnel and the policy makers in Manipur.