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I remember my undergraduate days in Preventive and Social Medicine Department 46 years ago, when we used to visit underprivileged people.
We used to attend to their health issues, help our Medical and Paramedical staff in providing healthcare.
We also used to visit their houses to survey their living conditions. We used to explain to the families about healthy practices.
A point I noted was that many of the families had left their homes and landed in cities due to the lure of better prospects, only to find that they had gone from the frying pan into the fire.
A theorist in politics, nearly 2345 years ago proposed a sort of cellular architecture of civilization where every settlement such as village, town or city would be self-sufficient economically, resources-wise, governance-wise and would be interconnected with other settlements. Had the concept been put into practice, such distressing realities would not have occurred.
Arvind Joshi,
MBBS MD FCGP FAMS FICP.
Competing interests:
No competing interests
17 June 2022
Arvind Joshi
Founder Convener and President Our Own Discussion Group, Consultant Physician.
Our Own Discussion Group, Mumbai PIN 400028; Consultant Physician at Ruchi Diagnostic Center and Ruchi Clinical Laboratory Kharghar PIN 410210; Maharashtra State INDIA.
Mumbai PIN 400028 & Kharghar PIN 410210, Maharashtra State INDIA.
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Dear Editor,
I remember my undergraduate days in Preventive and Social Medicine Department 46 years ago, when we used to visit underprivileged people.
We used to attend to their health issues, help our Medical and Paramedical staff in providing healthcare.
We also used to visit their houses to survey their living conditions. We used to explain to the families about healthy practices.
A point I noted was that many of the families had left their homes and landed in cities due to the lure of better prospects, only to find that they had gone from the frying pan into the fire.
A theorist in politics, nearly 2345 years ago proposed a sort of cellular architecture of civilization where every settlement such as village, town or city would be self-sufficient economically, resources-wise, governance-wise and would be interconnected with other settlements. Had the concept been put into practice, such distressing realities would not have occurred.
Arvind Joshi,
MBBS MD FCGP FAMS FICP.
Competing interests: No competing interests