'Head' transplant

SAPIENS WRITES:

With the new cabinet, the MOHSS has had a “head” management transplant.

The experienced Dr. K Shangula retired as minister and his Executive Director was transferred! We now have a new minister with relevant qualifications and a new Executive Director, this is equivalent to a brain transplant. The new managers will need time to find their feet. They have to orientate themselves, there is a transition period. They were given a three-month probation period to perform after 35 years of Swapo Party rule? (Realistic)

The biggest health challenge is a 40% un- or underployment. This is reflected in food insecurity, shack housing without light, clear water, toilets, soap, month end binge drinking, and gender based violence. The two biggest evils (addictions) are sugar (appetite stimulant) leading to the metabolised syndrome (obesity, hypertension and diabetes), and fermented sugars (alcohol). There is no warning against sugar abuse, and no VAT Tax as this may affect voting (power) choices.

We must not think of the next election, but the next generation.

Health starts with the ANC (Antenatal cleanse), breastfeeding, early childhood development, and functional literacy (reading with understanding, writing with meaning, arithmetic with measurement, reasoning and relationships).

We must plan within our family carrying capacity – replace husband and wife with two children to give them the opportunity to develop their full potential.

There must be zero tolerance for public drunkenness. A taxi deposit must be paid at shebeens to take drunk customers home safely.

Sugar must be taxed 10% plus VAT, with a warning. With this income good foods are cross subsidized, free from VAT. Milk, eggs, brown bread, unsifted maize meal (with vitamins/iron), Meatma products, beans, pilchards, apples (vitamin C), carrots (vitamin A) and spinach.

Every home should be encouraged with seeds/compost to have their own tyre garden with carrots and tomatoes, etc.

The minister, as role model, should lead by example in the National Assembly. A third of the members suffer from obesity, incubating long term morbidity.

Movement or mind and body (muscle) is life, keep moving both and live. Avoid lifts (coffin practice), use stairs going up/down two floors.

With compound good habits and preventative maintenance of your assets, your quality of life and lifespan will surge. Health is wealth. It is a partnership for the common good.

A Luta Continua for Socio Economic Liberation! Vision 2030.



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