As the international community joined voices today the 8th of March, 2014 to celebrate the international women’s day, it is very important to use the opportunity to continue lending voice to the numerous challenges faced by women the world over.
Quality healthcare is one of
these challenges. Provision and access to quality healthcare is a basic human
right that has to be equitably distributed and not according to gender or
social status. Women have the right to adequate healthcare services at all
levels and the government and individuals need to rise up to this onerous task
of ensuring they get it.
Striking statistics released by
the CDC Global Health official twitter handle today that revealed how
disadvantaged women are especially in developing countries. This calls for
action from relevant agencies and governments to rise up to their
responsibilities to their citizens. Evidently, it wasn’t a particular gender
that voted them into office; therefore, they have to ensure that healthcare services
are distributed in an equitable manner.
Governments have to create
indigenous solutions to their challenges and stop relying much on foreign aids.
They can however demand foreign assistance in form of exchange programs to
train their staff and enable them hone their skills and improve in their
service delivery.
They also need to look into
strengthening community health workers in the primary health care settings
because this is where most preventable maternal deaths are recorded.
The woman also has right to
obtain at least basic primary education to enable her understand the
information passed unto her during trainings and hospital workshops. Educating them
will enable them know where and how to look when they need certain information concerning
their health.
Most infant and maternal deaths
come as a result of ignorance on the part of mother and education is a vital
tool to overcome this. An educated woman will understand the importance of
vaccinating her child against polio, she will understand the importance of
properly planning her family, and she will know the right time to take her
child to the right health care practitioner to seek proper medical attention
instead of relying on unhealthy and unsafe practices at home.
Education can serve as a strong
tool to solve many challenges faced by women in the developing world today and as we access the United Nations Millennium development goals and make plans for the post 2015 agenda, it is very important to properly access the successes recorded so far on issues concerning women and the girl child, and also make proper plans to completely realize the set goals before the deadline.
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