GET INVOLVED: BUILDING A HEALTHIER WORLD.

Every Seventh April has been chosen as The World Health Day. The genesis of this celebration came about during the First Health Assembly in 1948 which came to light since 1950. The celebration aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for the World Health Organization.

The theme for this year’s celebration is Building a fairer, healthier world for everyone. As Joyce Meyer said “I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” Hence, we must build a fairer, healthier world and how do we do that? In this era of COVID-19, we can create a healthier world by adhering strictly to the safety protocols such as regular hand washing with soap under running water, social distancing at least arm stretched away from others, wearing of face mask, covering the nose and mouth with tissue when coughing and sneezing and discarding immediately. Also, regular exercises, adequate rest, eating well like more vegetables and fruits diet as well as taking a jab of the approved vaccines to make the world safe for all of us. All these reinforce Joyce Meyer’s argument that the greatest gift you can give to your family is healthy you.

Mahatma Gandhi said “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” This seems to suggest that we must also chase our health as we chase for money because the real wealth is health. What will you get if you obtain all the wealth in this world like cars, mansions, owing multinational companies and others, and you are unwell or unhealthy to enjoy those wealth? Others argue that money can buy health but this is not always the case. Let “healthy you” be the most priority by regular check ups, adequate intake of water, good sexual life like one sex partner, practicing protective sex if not your married partner, including the aforementioned.

Bryan Cranston emphasized that “ Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you’re not healthy. You can’t appreciate it.” This appears to reinforce that good health supersedes love so if you say you love someone so much then do things that bring good health to the world we all live. And this will show that you love that person. Again, we can all take it upon ourselves to work on our climate change to make the world habitable by taking it up to ourselves that we will plant just a tree at least every three months or even on your birthday, we will change to the use of biodegradable materials (materials that can decay to prevent environmental pollution), we will stop cutting down trees as well as indiscriminate waste disposal and others.

Virgil commented that “The greatest wealth is health.”

It is therefore necessary for us to grow foods naturally than the use of so many chemicals to achieve the greatest wealth in the world. Let think about one another and have feelings for humanity. As the Holy Scripture (Holy Bible) says love your neighbor as yourself. It is our collaborative responsibility to make this world healthier for us all including you so that we can have a wonderful world to live in.

Credits:

https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/events/detail/2021/04/07/western-pacific-events/world-health-day-2021

https://www.indiatoday.in/information/story/world-health-day-april-7-2021-theme-significance-history-and-quotes-1787871-2021-04-07