Africa-Press – Mauritius. The two events covered recently remind us how much successive governments have made public health a priority for decades, given the high number of certain diseases that affect every family.
It is a long-term free subscription and much involuntarily, because no one dreams of it, that some families have taken to diabetes, cholesterol and hypertension.
Between adults over the age of forty and their aging relatives within families, these diseases have nested for years despite the advice repeatedly given on the screen of prime-time national television, often embellished with the intervention of the Minister of Health in person.
Another reminder, that of the very nature of Homo Sapiens since the dawn of time. Our ancestor has an anatomy designed for long walks, sometimes for picking fruit, sometimes for hunting since the common ancestor stopped jumping happily from branch to branch and stood up on his two legs.
Walk where? one wonders when considering the various overpopulated regions of the island. Walk when? taking into account those who are subject to the regime of multiple jobs.
. So many questions that a first ministerial presence, the time of a national march, cannot relegate to the background. And finally, the tribute to old age, called international day of old age, a natural phenomenon that happens to others.
The old, said to be unloved and considered unproductive in prosperous and modern societies, continue to receive the attention of their children, especially their daughters, benevolent goddesses of all time, contrary to popular belief.
If loneliness has also ended up winning over developing countries, it is heavy for some, while others adapt very well to it by diversifying their occupations and enjoying long days without obligation on a daily basis.
A singular and, perhaps, cultural feature in the Mauritian context, leisure facilities are made available to the elderly for a derisory sum. One way to make these establishments built with public funds more profitable would be to allow residents to take their grandchildren there during the holiday period.
A measure that will serve parents while contributing to enriching the quality of life of each other. Another solution is effective marketing by the authorities to encourage residents to go there in order to fill these places of leisure all year round because it is a question of making the most of what is property.
public. Thus the pension paid to the beneficiaries will be spent wisely and will escape the covetousness of adult children who tend to dip abusively into the parents’ fund in times of precariousness in the name of misplaced solidarity.
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