THE FREEDOM FROM SICKNESS - SARVE SANTU NIRAMAYAH
Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah,
Sarve Santu Niraamayaah,
Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu,
maa kaschidh dukhbhaag Bhavet.
May everybody be blessed with happiness, may everybody live in perfect health free from sickness, may everybody be assured of well-being( lead a life that is safe and secure), and may there be no mental thought that could arouse sorrow or grief.
POSITIVE HEALTH AND COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE :
The ideas of freedom from misery and sorrow, the state of happiness are clearly associated with freedom from sickness and complete well-being of an individual. Health is defined as 'the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease'. The health care program must embrace all the three aspects of a disease; the preventive, the curative, and the restorative care of an individual. The three aspects of physical, mental, and social well-being of an individual are interrelated, interdependent, and contiguous. The medical care should be 'patient centered' rather than being 'disease centered'. Comprehensive Health Care can be described as the health promotive, health preservative, preventive, curative, and restorative health care of all individuals, at all stages of life from conception to the grave, and in all spheres of life such as home, school, workplace, and in the community. In the Armed Forces, the medical practitioner gives attention to any condition considered responsible for deterioration in health or likely to affect adversely the health, morale, and welfare of the personnel under his medical care. The Medical Officer in the Armed Forces not only promotes, preserves, and protects the health, but also periodically carries out an assessment of the environmental, living, and working conditions of the personnel under his medical care.
The threats to human health and well-being come from several directions and tragically very healthy individuals may sometimes succumb to sickness. The causative factors of several diseases still remain a mystery. Cancer is one such disease which poses a challenge to our motto of achieving 'freedom from sickness'. I had presented two rare cases of Cancer in perfectly healthy individuals at my Home Page of Bhavana Jagat.
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