Letters to the editor
Preventive health care and nutrition
Sir
The preventive sides to health care deserve far greater emphasis in our country. The best strategy for a developing country with limited resources is spreading vital health maintenance related information among all sections of people . Thus, regular and intense official publicities need to be geared up so that people can be made aware about what they can do on their own to keep away from illnesses.
People can be kept educated about not smoking, taking proper diets, observing thoroughly essential hygiene and maintaining their physical environments safe. From doing of these things alone, a number of serious diseases can be warded off and health of people can generally improve.
Furthermore, government should also take on major campaigns to increase nutritional awareness. People may learn how to cater effectively to nutritional needs from consumption of cheap but nutritionally rich foodstuffs. Children at schools and workers in factories can be supported with free distribution or sale at nominal prices dietary supplements or nutrious foods .
