LIMITATIONS

LIMITATIONS

Water is highly  polluted by the sewages from the industries.

The waste water of the city.

Immersion of Durga and Ganesh idols in the rivers, tanks, and other water resources.

Pouring ashes of the dead into the rivers on the name of moksha.

Throwing the dead bodies directly into the rivers.

Sewage water joining  rivers, and these rivers joining the seas is not only harmful to human beings but also to the fishes.

Good food and good water make one healthy. They are not available  40% of Indians who live below poverty line. They take only belly-filling food. Mostly pickle oriented food.  For good health, medicines are not the solution. Medicines cannot eradicate all the ailments. The medi-cine maybe good and powerful, but if the constitution of the body is very weak they cannot help.  Good food can only prevent one from getting diseases. Generally people cannot spend more money on good food, but spend thousands once they get some or the other disease.

The latest available varieties of food are hybrid which are not at all healthy but only can quench the appetite. So use medicines has become very common. In 1948, in our country, the total medicines produced are worth 10 crores. In 1994 it went up to 690 crores. The per capita expenditure on medicine then was Rs.4 but  now it is Rs. 86.

Advertisements make a thing necessary but it is not at all necessary. For example fridge. If we put something in fridge and eat later, it leads to gas trouble. The corporate is selling some-thing telling that it is very essential. If all the fresh things are avai-lable in the near by market, then what is the necessity of buying things and keeping in the fridge. Fridge is a must preserving certain medicines for chemists.

PURUGU MANDULA VISHA VALAYAM [telugu version]

Robert Van Bosch, Hyd Book Trust, 1998.

There are many chemicals which are very dangerous. Parathion, Malathian, , Argano Phosphate, various spidermites, Calcium arpinote, DDT, BHP, Taxafin, Carboryl, Trichlorophon and so on.

The people of rural India work with these chemicals. The che-micals became a part of life of the farmers. So the after effects of these chemicals cannot be avoided. The use of chemicals in rural India is doubling every 8 years. Even after using these many chemicals, the farmer is not getting good returns.

DDT consists of Argano Chlorine, Argano Phosphorous, Aldrine, Di-Alidrine.

These chemicals when sprayed, spread and pollute the atmos-phere. It is used widely in England in different forms, More than 800 types are there in this. These are sprayed in fruit gardens, agricultural fields, golf courts, etc. to kill silver fish, butterflies, grass hoppers, white ants, and others. The residue of these chemicals are found in Antarctica penguine birds. These are found in drinking water. These pollutants cause cancer, abnormal children etc.

The parliamentary committee after due enquiry found and sub-mitted a report that 25% of the insecticides cause cancer.

If the insecticides and pesticides are sprayed from an aero plane or a helo, many  creatures die such as bees, birds, and other delicate ones. The effect of these DDT molecules is that they are appeared in milk.

1.            educate and train people or volunteers in medicine and post them in rural areas to serve the poor.

2.            the idea of Mao in creating “bare foot doctors” can solve major portion of health problems.

3.            if the sex workers are recognized and medical aid is pro-vided to them spread of AIDS disease can be controlled.

4.            family planning programme is to be implemented with some incentives such that the population explosion can be controlled.

5.            the number of PHCs should be increase.

6.            the government should take over basic fields such as health under its direct control.

7.            with the help of 8mm projectors, OHPs, information should be passed on in the use of medicines, hygienic conditions, how to develop social factors for themselves.

8.            encourage experts to take seminars on different subjects such that they can be well aware of the basic things.

9.            strictly implementing Hathi Committee Report.

10.         Ayurvedic medicine is to be developed and the rural people are to be guided to use the plants as medicines.

11.         as there is levy system in rice, the government should introduce the same in medicines. The medicines thus obtained are to be distributed to the rural Indians.

12.         unless the rural people are financially developed, their social factors cannot be developed. To achieve this, plants of medicinal values are to be grown. For example alevera, ashwagandha…

13.         the multinational units in the fields of drug and pharma-ceuticals should be taken over by the government and managed by the National Drug Authority.

14.         multinational companies won’t produce bulk drugs. They thrive on the bulk drugs, manufactured by the Indian companies.

15.         the government should provide medicines and other facilities to voluntary institutions such Puttaparthi Super Speciality Hospital.