PHEELLO SETONA
Healthy living for South Africans
One of the basic challenges facing South Africa is provision of better living and there conditions attached to it. A better nation increase economic growth as most people engage into mainstream economy through different means. However, one major challenge is huge expenditure to the department of health in order to meet constitutional duty of providing better living and right to life. South Africa is challenged with importing medical solutions from other countries and as a results what is supposed to be used for infrastructural development is reduced to accomodate this medical demand.
In his book, Things that could not be said, Reverend Frank Chikane extensively elaborate on HIV crisis they faced when he was still a member of Former President Thabo Mbeki cabinet, that there was a locked consensus with other countries to supply South Africa with vaccine for HIV and that resulted in the country spending chunk of the money to pharmaceutical companies. The solution to the problem was to develop industrialization especially introduction of black industrialists in order to find solution to any palliative illness and scientist that will develop medical solutions. This would have created jobs and reduce government spending on foreign pharmaceutical companies.
Another challenge to healthy living was nutritional aspects, that even if you provide a patient with medicine, if the patient didnt have good diet, the medication will fail to work. Now, one of the programmes was to push concept of allowing every community to plant vegetables and start to eat healthy as that would help in prolonging life of an hiv positive person and replace any kind of medication. As both they are meant to prolong life expectancy of individuals.
Healthy living for South Africans
18 Feb 2017, 19:00
One of the basic challenges facing South Africa is provision of better living and there conditions attached to it. A better nation increase economic growth as most people engage into mainstream economy through different means. However, one major challenge is huge expenditure to the department of health in order to meet constitutional duty of providing better living and right to life. South Africa is challenged with importing medical solutions from other countries and as a results what is supposed to be used for infrastructural development is reduced to accomodate this medical demand.
In his book, Things that could not be said, Reverend Frank Chikane extensively elaborate on HIV crisis they faced when he was still a member of Former President Thabo Mbeki cabinet, that there was a locked consensus with other countries to supply South Africa with vaccine for HIV and that resulted in the country spending chunk of the money to pharmaceutical companies. The solution to the problem was to develop industrialization especially introduction of black industrialists in order to find solution to any palliative illness and scientist that will develop medical solutions. This would have created jobs and reduce government spending on foreign pharmaceutical companies.
Another challenge to healthy living was nutritional aspects, that even if you provide a patient with medicine, if the patient didnt have good diet, the medication will fail to work. Now, one of the programmes was to push concept of allowing every community to plant vegetables and start to eat healthy as that would help in prolonging life of an hiv positive person and replace any kind of medication. As both they are meant to prolong life expectancy of individuals.
One major challenge has been that people between the age of 24 and 54 years are mainly dying as a results of lifestyle choices and this leave older generation alive and not active in the economy. Those who were supposed to work and grow economy are fewer, while older people depends on state grants. The revenue collection through SARS is minimal while the expenditure is higher. Educating people and providing alternatives to current provision of medicines will reduce expenditure on government. Countries like Cuba and Arabs have lower intake of palliative patients as they embark more on educating their own people on better living conditions and lifestyle enhancement.