Health is every person’s right yet to many especially in the rural areas it still remains a pipe dream as health facilities are usually few and far between. And where health facilities are available, the costs of accessing them are usually prohibitive. We want to play a very significant role in the efforts to avail health facilities and expertise to the poorest of the poor. Sanitation, hygiene, elimination of malnutrition, immunization and availability of safe/clean drinking water are key issues around health that we are determined to address.
We will work round the clock to support the World Health Organization (WHO) and other humanitarian organizations that have been waving high the Health for All flag. We have joined the crusade and we want to make a difference.
Halfdan Mahler, Director General (1973-1983) of the WHO defined health as “a personal state of well being, not just the availability of health services – a state of health that enables a person to lead a socially and economically productive life”. And that Health For All implies “the removal of the obstacles to health – that is to say, the elimination of malnutrition, ignorance, contaminated drinking water and unhygienic housing – quite as much as it does the solution of purely medical problems such as a lack of doctors, hospital beds, drugs and vaccines”. We will work tirelessly as a group of everyone’s friends to compliment the work that has already been started by WHO and other like-minded organizations to achieve this.
