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Friday, 06 October 2006 |
WHO Definition of Health
'Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.'
By the WHO definition, all the people of Arakan and of Burma are unhealthy and suffering from some kind of physical, mental or social disease. As you know Burma is being ruled by the brutal military Government, we all are suffering from fear, fright, flight and all kind persecutions.
To determine health status of our community, here we need to include health status measuring parameters such as crude death rate, life expectancy, maternal mortality rate, foetal mortality rate, number of Hospitals, etc. Due to the lack of records and unreliable statistics in our country, such parameters are unavailable.
Our Rohingya population is about 3.5 millions. Among them 2 millions live inside Burma mainly in the Arakan State and the rest are in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Middleast, Thailand, Malaysia etc in excile.
There are only one Specialist Hospital, two Township Hospitals, two Urban Health Centres and four Station Hospitals for our people in the Arakan state. Rural Health Centre and subcentre of health are located in each village without any facilities or supports and thus they can’t provide any health service. There are only 12 Rohingya doctors, 3 Rohingya dental surgeons for five decades. You can imagine our Rohingya health status by comparing population and available health facilities.
As our country is a developing and tropical country, infectious diseases, tropical diseases and malnutrition are common. The symptoms, complications and treatments mentioned below may or may not be typical and scientific. But these are common presentations, complications and actual treatments received in our community. The Preventive measures. are mentioned in the hope of that our people may practice individually or at the community level and may get benefits. However one should consult a professional doctor for thorough examination and medication. |
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Rohingya Health 
