Educating Health

The ancient Nalanda University had a mandatory course on health and medicine in their graduation programme. This was solid wisdom. Personally, being educated has no meaning if a person does not how to be healthy and what to do in case they fall ill or face an emergency. Otherwise, too, healthy people boost the health of the commonwealth. How to be healthy, physically and mentally, and what to do in medical emergencies must be a part of school education and be mandatory to earn credits for the graduation programme. In other words, personal health management and basic medicinal awareness must be a basic part of education.

General health and medical facilities should also be one of the main focuses for associational entities. Health security must be brought to be a prime rationale of and core mandate for the State.

Niraj Kumar Jha