Health a Real Ornament

When we give an ear to the word health it sounds ridiculous because we are living in an environment which it is self is unhealthy, and unhygienic, so, how come we expect to be hale and hearty in such surrounding? We Pakistanis are living in a dirty and filthy setting that it is paradoxical to claim that cleanliness is half of our faith. Our streets are steeped in filth and garbage, roads and plots evidence the flying plastic bags, and hygiene and purity are the ornamental words since clean and pure water is scarce. Hospitals are the dwelling of bacteria and viruses themselves and how paradoxical that they welcome an enormous number of patients, those patients who have been invaded by public germ ooopps! I mean germs available in public areas. Public toilets are rare, and if one is found, it portrays a devastative picture of unhygienic, stinking consign. Main-wholes are open and greet the pedestrians to have a dive into them and get an injury free of cost. Garbage tubs are vomiting the excessive amount of filth, but there is no one to notice this alarming situation. In these circumstances how can we be healthy, and how come we can have the dream of a vigorous life. It is said that health is wealth, but honestly speaking, we do not find this wealth around us. Our country seems to be deprived of health as well as wealth.

In current scenario Nazims and Naib Nazims and the bodies working under them must take any effective action for the sanitation of their areas. They are the people who are from us and live with us, how can they lock their eyes from this distressing set up, and how would they forget that previously people from different areas of our Motherland had suffered and lost their love ones due to dengue virus.

Summer season has knocked the doors of some areas and some where it is on its peak, the scattered filth and trash are leading us towards sickness and inviting different diseases like malaria, typhoid, and diarrhea to shake the entire country. The only remedy can be proper sanitation and hygienic steps like celebrating hafta-e-safai (cleanliness week), conducting seminars and workshop on minor and major levels. Programs like mothers’ awareness about sanitation of children; family health etc must be broadcasted. Different NGOs must come ahead and join hand with government bodies to run these above mentioned programs successfully. And above all if we individually try to play our own roll by at least keeping our selves and the area that is in our access clean; we may be able to wipe this filthy image of our environment. Only then the word Health my sound better and healthier to our ears, and we may say that yes we are true Muslims and as Islam says “cleanliness is half of faith”, we truly represent that.