World is facing tremendous challenges on various fronts. Health is one of the most prime sector where huge investments are planned to tackle complicated health issues alongside the endemics or epidemics in third world countries. A recent episode in this segment was to tackle Cholera in south Sudan. Lack of availability of Cholera Vaccines was a huge threat to mankind. Countries like Ethiopia, Madagascar, Nigeria and many small island countries facing huge threat of managing medical emergencies due to huge gap in understanding, focusing and proactive planning of health care. This includes all Topical Diseases, Communicable and Non Communicable Diseases.
Islanders suffer from Nephro toxicity as the water source carries impurities and sea fish carries mercury and other cancer causing heavy metals. Even world bodies like World Health Organization failed to take corrective measures primarily due to lack of data and analysis as majority never mapped the countries health record. Medical Record System is almost non-existing in these countries.
Even preventive care is a focus area today as it is said to protect the organ before it’s start creating complicated issues. There is a need to innovate new molecules to prevent organ specific diseases or create a niche to ensure safety for all organs before it start creating medical complications.
Constant research in areas like finding new molecules, which offers better therapeutic efficacy and greater safety to tackle Diabetics or cardiac ailments are widely visible. Whereas, pharmaceutical research on Typhoid, Cholera, Tuberculosis, Malaria etc. has taken back seats in last decade. Issues like managing medical emergency though often a priority for small nations but in reality the concept does not exist. There are sporadic efforts from various NGOs and international health care organizations to eliminate communicable and non-communicable diseases. There are hardly any efforts by NGOs to bring innovative molecules to tackle medical emergencies including endemic and epidemics in third world nations. Lack of resources, willingness and supports making it worse. Time has come to bring Electronic Medical Records, keeping sufficient stocks of essential medicines and deploy qualified medical manpower as these are the key determining factors before anyone plan to eradicate endemic and epidemic from the present heath care systems of third world countries.
Written by – Partha Banerjee
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