Paradise lies under the feet of your mother. This is a Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). In our culture we're taught from a very early age the importance of a mother. Do you know even saying the smallest word of irritation, ie, Uff, or you can call it a sigh is forbidden for us to say in front of our parents. This is how much the importance of parents is in Islam. And why shouldn't it be? I mean, who was there to clean your diapers up when you had no sense? Who breast fed you whole night sacrificing their sleep? Who raised you, nurtured you, paid for your education and other expenses? Your parents, didn't they? There's no such thing as a single way in this world. There's always an exchange of asset, emotions, money etc. If only one person is putting in all his/her efforts, the relationship, the deal, the business etc is bound to fail. So it's a two way thing and I believe that children should play their role as well.
In an extremely underdeveloped country like Pakistan, where we don't even have the basic health necessities for people. Thousands of people die in Pakistan due to not having sufficient medical feasibilities. Even in our hospital, we have seen many cases in which we couldn't do anything to help the patient just because of lack of instruments provided by the government. It's a shame really. You want to help someone, yet you can't.
Amongst all these people, mothers are the most compromised. No one really cares about them and a lot of people tend to label them as only a child bearing machine. The obstetrics and gynecology ward in our hospital is a place where we see hundreds of women pouring in on daily basis with pregnancies. Even in a normal pregnancy, you all have an idea, there are so many complications. Imagine, not providing with the basic necessities, what sort of torture these women would be in.
As a dentist, I can't play much role in relieving their pain of pregnancy or providing them a better healthcare services but what I can do is provide them good oral heath awareness and check their oral cavities. Give them a free oral checkup. Make their already miserable lives a bit better.
So this is what we did. We planned a whole initiative in which we setup a free dental camp at the Obstetrics and Gynecology Ward and the National Institute of Children Health and provided each and every patient who walked in the hospital a free dental checkup.
OBS AND GYNE WARD
There were literally hundreds of women when we walked in this ward at 8:30 am. We quickly set up our camp and had different stations. Two of our stations had examination in which we examined the oral cavity of whosoever walked in. The next two stations were of the awareness sessions in which we taught everyone how to brush and floss their teeth. We taught them how to take better care if their oral cavities and how pregnancy takes a huge toll on your oral health. Why it's extremely important to take better care of their oral health especially during pregnancy. After the checkups and awareness sessions, we provided them free toothbrushes and toothpastes
After that we made an announcement so that everyone can know that we're providing free dental checkups in this ward and within few minutes, hundreds of women poured in. Lets have a look.
The next camp, we set up at National Institute of Children Health. Children are our future assets. In this country, the only hope we have left is the youth. The young generation who can maybe help save this country. If not, we are doomed. It's miserable state of affairs here. With each political dynasty fighting for hoarding up more and more wealth, not giving a damn about the people and the young generation of this country.
We played our parts to the best of pur capabilities. It's a public sector hospital I work in and the majority of the patients who visit this hospital are the ones who cannot afford private medical treatment. The state of affairs in a public sector hospital are sad. The management doesn't care about the patients since they're not Vips. The treatment gets delayed, reports are not valid etc.
At the NICH we set up a camp exclusively for children in which we did the same thing. Spread awareness regarding the oral health and examined children to the best of our capabilities.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH
This how I am trying to play a better role in the life of other people. When we do these things, we expect absolutely nothing in return, except for the the betterment of our underprivileged citizens of this country. I hope you liked reading my blog and enjoyed the pictures as well. I'll meet you all again very soon. Till then, take care byeee.
WHO IS HUZAIFANAVEED?
huzaifanaveed hails from Pakistan, who is an aspiring dentist, studying in one of the top notch universities of Pakistan, Jinnah Sindh Medical University.
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