I have been following the spread of
Kidney Disease during the past 5 years, and is aghast that the State or any
other Institution local or foreign has not taken up this in a serious and
systematic manner to determine cause, minimize the causes, and provide the
needed resources to diagnose at an early stage, those who are most at risk and
set up treatment plans to ensure, either full recovery or at least the ability
to live a useful life in society, being both a contributor to its well being
and hopefully an educator in its prevention and spread.
All these are very simple concepts, and
all I hear about is new hospitals and new dialysis units to help patients who
have contracted the disease. We must do something before it becomes a problem
of uncontrollable proportions like AIDS in South Africa, as it looks like a
similar problem, and like in all matter that shake the Sri Lankan psyche it has
to be one that gets incurable before people get roused! ARE WE ALL ASLEEP?
If comparisons are required, I point to
the traffic crisis in Colombo, which is getting worse by the day, costing a
Billion rupees a day, and NOTHING is STILL being done about it.
Kidney disease MUST be right up there as
one of the pressing problems facing Sri Lanka. However, nothing seems to be
done about it. What ever is being done however is wholly insufficient.
I know what is going to happen. Why wait
5 years for it to happen? We should take action now. When people start dying like
flies, it will suddenly dawn on the people that pesticides, and the Sri Lanka soil
don’t have a happy mix and over time it pollutes the water to such an extent that
there is NO reversal, but banning ALL sorts of chemical means at destroying animal
insect or plant life.
The answer is simple, an all organic Country
that will be easy to enforce and prove, and also be easy to market as the safest
paradise on earth.
I therefore challenge the powers to take
this necessary step as a 10 year program so that at the end of this period Sri Lanka
will be a certified organic nation with untold benefits that will accrue to the
people who live in this pollution free zone enjoying an unparalleled quality of
life that will be the envy of the world, while saving its citizens from near death,
and improving the health of its citizenry, taking it to possibly the country with
the highest quality of life on earth.
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