Health solutions at last

This I have concluded from articles appearing in newspapers over the weekend — “Healthcare system in crisis” and the empty promises of the minister of health headed “Drug shortage to end by 2017.” It is an insult to say that the system belonged to the dinosaur age. Dinosaurs will not like that, but it is archaic for sure.

Some of the complaints of the system are too many general practitioners, some of whom know a lot about nothing, others nothing about everything and a selected few a little about some things.

The list continues: overcrowded clinics serving hopelessness; empty hospital pharmacies dispensing frustration; medicine not ending up in the right places; doctors and nurses no longer being the agents of comfort; easier to get an appointment with death than with the clinics; non-functioning machines; doctors’ inefficiencies going unchallenged and there is no form of redress; nursing staff overworked; shortage of medical supplies; unmanned working equipment; cancer patients at the mercy of the system; misdiagnosis and under and over-treatment.

Our recent trend of using chemicals and surgery to cure means that we have aligned ourselves with the predatory nature of the pharmaceutical industry. We have grown accustomed to suppressing symptoms rather than curing root causes. This necessarily results in an increase of the number of patients.

The Ministry of Health must lead the return to traditional remedies while maintaining contemporary medicine and at the same time researching artificial intelligence medical machines.

Make all three modes available and let patients choose the one they feel comfortable with.

All three avenues of healthcare must be supported financially by the State. There are large jurisdictions in which all three methods are present and they have long eliminated the problems we are now wrestling with.

Our healthcare system is highly labour intensive and will always be riddled with human errors. We know how difficult it is to keep the productivity of labour high consistently.

The minister has to think outside the box.

He must take the bull by the horns, research other systems and copy what they use to make their systems more efficient.

The use of artificial intelligence medical machines with bioresonance therapy and frequency compensation is highly recommended.

The accuracy and efficiency of these machines is well beyond that of a team of your best doctors.

The latter has to depend on questioning the patient to gather data before a diagnosis is made. There is much guesswork and trial and error causing treatment to hit or miss its target.

The use of the artificial intelligence medical machines eliminates unnecessary lengthy contact times between doctor and patient and delays of waiting on tests. It collects symptoms scientifically, analyses electronically and provides and prescribes medication instantly based on a matrix system. Furthermore, treatment is orderly, the most urgent issue is dealt with first. A great plus of this system is that there is no drug to go astray.

The system sounds like magic or a fairy tale but it exists. No more disappointing trips to the pharmacy; no more side effects from the use of chemicals and no long wait for medication to kick in. Bankruptcy from illness will be a thing of the past.

For those who believe a little behaviour modification will bring healing, for those who do not believe, well sorry, it will be a case of until death separates you from illness.

Mr Minister, you have the wand in your hand to make things happen, cast the spell.

You can revive the era when the society cared about healing its sick.

Any alternative action will promote the rise of the predators and the misery will continue.

Time to raise health from the doldrums

LENNOX FRANCIS Couva