To the Ministry of Health: Health awareness needed [Archives:2006/928/Letters to the Editor]

Benny
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I am currently working as a staff nurse here in Saudi medical at Hajja. I have been here for almost three months now. Back in our country, Philippines, I worked as an assistant dean of one of the college of nursing in our city.

I have noticed that most of our patients here in the hospital have little interest in preventing diseases among themselves and that they have low awareness of what will be the effect of these kinds of diseases to the community where they live.

These certain diseases happening to their own community must be promptly solved. Therefore I would even suggest to have an intensive work in the application of primitive care in the community by raising their awareness about certain diseases in which they would be able to understand the nature, the effect and its complication to each individual, to their family and at the same to the larger community thus promoting a healthy community which will lead to a more productive citizens.

As World Health Organization stated in 1977: health is a means and an end to development. A productive country will depend on how healthy the people living.

I am also suggesting that universities or colleges of nursing must have to include in their curriculum the community health nursing wherein these enrolled nursing students could be a great help in disseminating health information which will promote awareness about health in every community here in Yemen.

And I would like to suggest applying the new trend of care for nurses – primitive care, preventive care, curative care and rehabilitative care.

Hope that this little insight of mine would touch your heart for the betterment of all citizens not only here in Yemen but globally.
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