Need for decent sports facilities
We spend more than $40 million annually on health to ensure a healthy populace. We encourage them to watch their diet, exercise and preventive health care.
The expenditure of our limited resources needs to be augmented by providing a fully equipped facility where both young and old can meet to stretch their muscles over a sedentary lifestyle.
We can do our people one better by funneling sifficient funds to the Ada Gymnasium so we can upgrade the track and field and related facilities to a decent level. The center of the track could be used for football games. Other facilities in the area could be improved so that sports activities are planned and implemented in a centralized area.
The improvement of this facility definitely needs money. And we ask our legislators to find some source of funding to get on with the job of building a decent and centralized sports facilities for our people. Concrete resolve in this direction would augment the millions of dollars we spend on health by providing a decent venue where our young and old can exercise at any time of day. Let’s do it for health!
Public Health needs exam
The ongoing flu is, by far, the most serious that has ever descended on these isles. Some have died from it while others have been hospitalized for severe cases of pneumonia and we are ever grateful to the doctors and nurses for their dedication to assist those afflicted seriously by it.
While the professionals (doctors and nurses) work the clock attending to the seriously ill, we quiz why there hasn’t been an aggressive public campaign from the Division of Public Health to warn the general public of this awful flu by way of preventive measures. It would have prepared families to guard the elderly and young ones from contracting it or what must be done for those with low immunity systems.
We can’t confirm that some of these deaths are attributable to the ongoing flu. But news from families about their perception of the origin of these deaths certainly warrants review and immediate warning to the general public. The least that we expect from the Division of Public Health is some aggressive advisory to keep the public abreast of the dangers of the new form of flu.
We’re not being critical for the sake of it, but it seems a case of negligence on the part of public health officials. Perhaps there’s a need to examine this division’s own health in terms of meeting its fiduciary responsibility as fully paid public sector employees somewhat complacent in the delivery of timely information. It could have used the media in this matter to aid its efforts to inform the general public that, i.e., the flu season is in and that precautionary measures must be taken forthwith given that it is a far more serious flu condition than what we’ve seen in years past.
