More Related Content Similar to Come Together For Health For All (10) 7. I can’t. He will ask me to do some expensive tests. Like an MRI. I can’t afford all that. 8. It seems odd that modern medicine is making it more difficult for the poor to seek help. 9. I wonder if that’s what all those well meaning scientists had in mind… 11. But too often doing things the modern way only means the same relief for extra cost. 12. What happened to the doctor who listened to you, palpated your leg with his hand, then prescribed something that made the pain go away? 13. That sounds so unscientific. MRI’s are so much sexier. Why should young doctors not rely on them? 18. Many of us profit when doctors use MRIs. That’s how we can afford them! 19. What about those who can’t afford to buy shares in the medical industry or pay for MRIs? 20. Maybe doctors think the poor don’t need MRIs. Only the rich. Yet doctors are still unwilling to treat the poor. 21. So the health system is designed so that the poor don’t get access to cheap treatment because doctors prefer to treat the rich? 23. But it is true. Politics and business affect our health and our bodies. Whether we are rich or poor… 27. OK. So I agree that politicians and big businessmen affect our health. But what can I do about it? 30. Why wait till you are sick or poor to do something to protect your health? Better protect yourself when you are still healthy. 31. If vaccines can protect us from germs what do you think can protect us from politicians and big businessmen? 33. There is. There has always been. I remember this from my days fighting for India’s independence. 36. If we could come together to protect our independence we can definitely do the same to protect our health. 37. How can we come together? Look how different we all are. 41. How have other people come together to protect their health? Maybe we can learn from them. 42. I once met someone who told me a story about some people in a place called Barwani in Madhya Pradesh. 43. Between 19 th and 22nd May 2008, around 200 people gathered outside a government Community Health Centre in Barwani District to demand improvement in health services. 46. Groups of villagers directly observed services along with Village Health Committee members and Accredited Social Health Activists of the NRHM. 47. Villagers had direct dialogue with doctors of the Community Health Centre regarding poor services offered. 48. As a result doctors started coming on time and staying for the entire day. Ambulance services were made available to patients for the first time. 49. Separate needles began to be used for each patient. Health staff no longer demanded charges for services offered. 51. But you must remember that merely ensuring that the government hospitals function does not ensure health. 61. To protect our health we need to protect our Right To Information. 64. Lack of health care is definitely an obstacle. So is malnutrition, poverty and ignorance. 65. Everyone should be allowed the opportunity to live in good health. We believe in Health For All. 73. Well in today’s globalised world communicating with each other has become easier. 75. As well as the more traditional methods such as meetings, workshops and assemblies… 76. Did you hear about this big assembly of Health For All activists in the year 2000 in Dhaka, Bangaldesh? 77. Apparently lots of people were furious that the World Health Organisation had forgotten its promise of ‘Health For All by 2000 AD’. 78. So they met to discuss what is to be done. 1454 health activists from 75 countries came together . Just like us. 80. They agreed on a common understanding of the problem and a common plan of action. 85. Maybe we should invite someone from People’s Health Movement to talk to us. 89. I’ve come here to share with you about the People’s Health Movement. 91. It is the largest network of Health For All activists in the world. 92. It is organised into regional and local level circles as well as issue based circles. 93. It is coordinated by national and global level secretariats. It is coordinated by global and national level secretariats. 95. Most of the important decisions in India are made by a National Coordination Committee who meet regularly. 99. You could also endorse the People’s Charter for Health by sending a email to the global secretariat. 102. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap. Did you notice how PHM guy looked just like us? Maybe because he is just like us… 104. Wow. That was a good talk. Look at how our numbers have increased. 110. Now lets do something that will actually affect someone’s health. 113. We can now come together to represent our views at the World Health Organisation. 116. We just have to find the way that is most appropriate for us. 117. All we are saying is that we must understand two important things about health if we are to remain healthy. 119. Two. That we can counter the ill effects of business and politics by staying together.
