Why waiting for situation to worsen before we find antidotes??

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I was in the same boat as many people today who would stay idle for their health challenges to get out of hand before they find antidote to that challenge. Now many of us have suffered get rid of their health problems but it has become a chronic on them. They initially considered the situation to be meagre but it later aggravated and expanded to larger form. There are many factors in relation to the reason why many people at the initial stage their health conditions wouldn't bother for quick treatments.

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A woman in the process of receiving health screening at Agona Bedomase health outreach exercise


"Among these are:"

Lack of financial assistance.

I've experienced many cases of issues arising from a lot of people in my community complaining about high charges of their hospital bills. With the recent hyperinflation hitting the country, currently you will go to most hospitals that you wouldn't get medicine after diagnosing you and the doctor having prescribed the drugs to be given for the treatment of your disease. Some drugs are to be bought at private pharmaceutical shops which are very costly for the patients to afford.

I've personally experienced confrontation with many of the physicians on the some issues relating to drugs that the Health Insurance Scheme cover and those that the Health Insurance Scheme doesn't cover. Operations and acute diseases which need emergency treatment are supposed to be financed by the patients with the insurance subsidizing some cost. Even with the health insurance Scheme it has not been completely free, not even a single day that I've been in hospital that I haven't paid anything. There are many instances that patients have escaped from hospitals due to unable to pay their bills.

The challenges of traditional herbs

When it comes to herbal medicine it really work for curing some diseases no doubt about that. But to the extent of diagnosis I've never heard its story for the traditional medicine helping to diagnose. So, the best option is to visit hospital if you have some health conditions for Doctors to diagnose you and necessary actions being taking. But the inhabitants mostly in our villages who delay in their villages relying on herbs while the situation would be at early stage haven't developed to acute case. Before the patients would realize that the situation need to experts for diagnoses, the situation might have gotten out of hand. In most cases when it comes to the traditionalist they mostly trust their Ancestors and what their forefathers left for them as herbs than trusting Doctors and scientific medicine. Instead of being to hospital for check ups in case they are sick, they prefer to seek for traditional medicine.

The problem of religion

As biblically some religion as at now don't eat other food like fishes and meats due to maybe they consider as being unhygienic, in the same way some religion have if that going to hospital is abomination to their beliefs. To some worshipers receiving blood transfusion is a taboo to their religion and hence when they have issues of their health conditions relating to anaemia they don't accept blood. Some religion don't even go to hospital at all. So when they are sick they only stick to local herbs.

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myself receiving Health screening at Agona Bedomase


The challenge of procrastination

Many people delay on their Health problem too long before they make attempt of seeking for a way out. So before they become aware of the real caused of the health problem they situation might have reached very high stage. This might also bores down to financial constraints which normally cripple many people to pay attention to their health issues. We must admit that in as much as we wait on certain problem it rather increases and worsen too much.

Our health is so paramount that if you have good health conditions you would be able to do many things in life. If your health situation isn't standard, your mind, your physical nature and business becomes inefficient. You would have a sound mind to work up to expectation. At some point, you can't work all. Productivity goes down generally. Hence, our health is what we should consider first if we feel in our bodies that things aren't ok. I think for the basic check ups don't require a lot of money but when we wait for the situation to worsen it's very difficult for Doctors to cure.


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