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Interview: By Naveed Memon M.A previous/ roll no 42.
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By: Naveed Memon
Dr Abdul
Razzaque Memon has passed MBBS/FCPS,
His opinions
about Health and spreading diseases,
common diseasesfrom his researches and experience.
Q: What is
disease? And how a person is affected by disease?
Dr A Razzaque: A
disease is a disorder in a normal structure or faction of a person, disease can
affect a person by different ways like infections, traumas, inflammation, immune,
reactions, energy reactions, auto immune processes and othersand by disturbing
the normal mechanism of body.
Q: What are the major causes of spreading disease?
Dr A Razzaque: Major
causes are, 1: containing food, water. Eating contaminated food, and drinking
dirty water due to unhygienic conditions can spread disease tomany people. 2: Overcrowding can spread disease from
person to a person by coughing, sneezing, kissing, physical contacts, sexual
contacts overcrowding also leads to less hygienic conditions leading to poor sanitations,
contamination of utensils and usage of those utensils by many people, which can
spread disease from person to a person.
3: Improper screening of blood may disease like hepatitis “C” hepatitis
“B” HIV can be transmitted from person to person because of not proper blood
screening before blood transfusion leading to spread of diseases.
Q: why people of rural areas are mostly affected by
diseases?
Dr A Razzaque: Because
of lack of facilities, unavailability of healthcare centers or lack of access
to healthcare, unawareness of symptoms of may common disease, illiteracy,
poverty, unhygienic conditions, some environmental factors and false believes
in different methods, scholars places, and can lead to different diseases and
their complications.
Q: how can we protect ourselves from diseases?
Dr A Razzaque: we can
be protected from disease by maintaining a proper hygienic conditions like
frequent hand washing, proper soaps and antiseptics using hand sanitizers,
maintaining proper sanitations, cooking foods property, drinking clean and
boiled water, preventing the environmental pollutions, eating the fresh fruits
and vegetables getting the vaccinations of different diseases, using the
mosquito nets and mosquito repellents and giving the awareness to others of
these methods and ways.
Q: how a person can know that he/she is affected by
disease?
Dr. A Razzaque: when a
person feels a single or multiple symptoms then he\she becomes suspicious of a
disease May persons present to us with history of fever, cough, flue, diarrhea,
vomiting, body-ache, headache, generalized weakness, loss of appetite,
disturbed sleep etc. Many persons come to us with different symptoms like high
grade fever e rigors & chills and tell us the suspicious diagnosis like
malaria. So the awareness of different symptoms of different disease makes them
to know that he\she might be affected by a disease.
Q: What is hepatitis-C, why it is common nowadays
and how can we present themselves from it?
Dr. A Razzaque:Hepatitis-C
is a virus infection caused by an RNA HCV (Hepatitis-C-Virus).It is so common
in developing countries because of unprotected vaginal and anal sexes, sharing
contaminated needles, instruments utensils, improper blood screening. No
screening or improper screening during pregnancy leading to transmission of
virus from mother to fetus turning pregnancy & labor. We can prevent
ourselves from this virus by applying the protected sex & avoiding the
contaminated needles instruments by doing the proper the screening of blood before
blood transfusion at good and expertise laboratories by screening the pregnant
women’s blood and by getting vaccinations.
Q:What are the possible ways that a man can keep
himself healthy?
Dr. A Razzaque: health
is wealth. A man can keep himself healthy by
(1)
Living a calm, quite life,
avoiding the stress.
(2)
Doing daily exercise.
(3)
Praying 5-times a day if Muslims.
(4)
Maintaining the good atmosphere
at home and outside home.
(5)
Maintaining good hygienic
conditions.
(6)
A eating well cooked and
preserved food, drinking clean and boiled water.
(7)
Eating fresh fruits, vegetables.
(8)
Going for routine blood test and
screening of common diseases and managing them as early as possible.
(9)
Going for available vaccines of
different-diseases.
(10)
Q: How a child can be infected with a polio disease?
Dr. A Razzaque:
poliomyelitis or polio is a viral disease caused by poliovirus it infects a
child after a child ingests infected fecal matter.
For example:
when a child ingot food or water that is contaminated with an infected fecal
matter containing a polio virus then virus infects a child. It involves the
spinal cord and brain leading to muscles weakness and disability a child can be
prevented from polio by regular vaccines at proper times.
Q: Why many people go to homeopathic, hakims instead
of doctors?
Dr. A Razzaque:most of
the medicines of homeopathic and hakims or composed of same plants sources as
of medical doctors provide a homeopathic doctor or hakim has not an authentic and
standard knowledge about a disease or its treatment then a doctor has many
people go to them because some patients gain quick relief from them but not
complete cure many people don’t know the nature of disease.
For Example: hepatitis-A
it is self-subsided within 2-3 weeks e rest and taking the fresh fruits and
vegetables but when these patients go to homeopathic, hakims, they provide them
some medicine along e advise of restpeople become healthy within 2-3 weeks
which as natural reversal of disease in most patients but people can’t
understand it and they turn there false trusts on them.
Q: Today man is totally addictive of smoking, drugs
etc how can they keep themselves away from such an addiction?
Dr. A Razzaque:once
addicted, it is very difficultfor a person to rid-off himself from it but by
doing the good counseling of those people, keeping them busy in different
activities so that have no free time to think about those addictive things, by
tapering the dose of drugs, by giving them placebo (which is actually a
substance, medicine or procedure which has no therapeutic effect but has
psychological effect) smoking can be stopped by prescribing the sub dermal
nicotine patches which have no systemic side effects unlike smoking.
Q: Your opinion about health?
Dr. A Razzaque:health
is a blessing from almighty Allah. When you are healthy you are capable of
doing any work and able to achieve any goal of life. Health gives mental,
psychological and physical power to a person. A diseased person remains
distributed physically or mentally at least to some an extent.
Interviewed By
Naveed Memon/M.A previous/ Roll,42.
