Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps Certificate

 

Does willpower help you to achieve everything?

 Willpower. If you have willpower, you can achieve everything.

Is it?

If your health doesn't support you, things change totally differently. Yes, you might achieve it with your willpower, but it's challenging. In most cases, you might have to keep trying till your death.

I am not discouraging anyone. Life isn't always fair. Just try to be prepared for whatever comes next. You just have to move on. At least you have to have willpower to keep trying.

May Allah bless us.

Healthcare - More Beds, Better Care

 What does the hospital do? Why do we build a hospital? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the English word “hospital” originally comes from the Latin noun “hopes,” which stands for “a guest or visitor” and “one who provides lodging or entertainment for a guest or visitor.” Oxford dictionary says noun. /ˈhɒspɪtl/ /ˈhɑːspɪtl/ ​a large building where people who are ill or injured are given medical treatment and care.

I brought up this topic to understand how we should take our hospital services. In a hospital, a patient should get treatment if they need it. All patients who seek medical help should get that help. When the hospital finds out there is nothing more to do, the patient may go home with proper instruments to continue the healthcare service in their home. We can’t keep patients like this in the hospital. Otherwise, all hospital beds will be filled with patients, and there won’t be any space for new ones. We know that every hospital gets new patients with different problems every day.

Before I joined the Community Worker Program, I used to work in an organization. One day, one of my elderly colleagues said he kept his wife in the hospital. She is sick, her memory is lost, and nothing can be done to her recovery. He visits her every 1 to 3 months. That is also not needed because most of the time, she doesn’t recognize him. I was surprised to hear that because in my country, hospitals will never act like nursing homes; they will need beds for those who need treatments. But my colleague said this is Canada, and he is happy that he doesn’t need to take care of his wife and not pay for anything (Medicine, dress, etc.).

I know this sounds brutal. But if you do your math, you will understand it’s impossible to keep a patient like this. Today or tomorrow, the hospital authority will have to act on it.

That’s why I think we are fighting with the wrong point. We shouldn’t fight to keep nursing home patients in hospitals. We should fight to have government-owned nursing homes with all the necessary equipment, good management, nurses, and doctors. Where an elderly patient can live happily, which should be free and accessible for all who need it as a Canadian is supposed to have.

During the pandemic, when oxygen support was in crisis, hospitals needed to decide who should get the facility, the younger or older patient. It goes for the younger one. Who lives along with the support.

In Japan, there was a nuclear incident in an area. To clean that area, elderly people volunteer to go because they don’t want the younger generation to have a chemical reaction.

I am bringing this logic to support my point that hospitals should be for patients who need treatments. Canada’s nursing homes are facing lots of troubles. Our military support group also suggested that workers try hard, but the management isn’t supporting them enough to solve the problems.

That’s why we need to ask our government not to privatize nursing homes anymore. Instead, they should create enough government-owned nursing homes for the elderly so that nobody worries about where they will go in their old age or who will care for them.

I am not supporting the act. We can’t forcefully remove any patient when we don’t make the proper solution for them. We need to ensure good homes for them first. We may not take more patients like this to stay in the hospital, but we can’t forcefully move anyone. Elderly people also have a voice to make the decision for themselves.

 

References:

1.      hospital noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com. (2023). Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hospital#:~:text=hospital-

 

2.      Staff, R. (2020, April 27). False claim: Hospital stands for “house of sick people in trauma and labor.” Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-hospital-stands-for-idUSKCN229262

 

3.     Sasaki, K., Gr, A. 72-Year-Old, & plant, mother who has volunteered to help clean up the F. nuclear. (n.d.). Japanese Seniors: Send Us To Damaged Nuclear Plant. NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2011/09/12/140402430/japanese-seniors-send-us-to-damaged-nuclear-plant

Archard, D., & Caplan, A. (2020). Is it wrong to prioritise younger patients with covid-19? BMJ, m1509. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1509

Take care of your health

 I am saying this to all, especially to women. When a woman becomes a mother, she cares for nothing but the child. After the child is born, she accepts all problems, which she can't say to everyone. But she keeps doing everything possible and impossible for her baby.

But we have to remember that if you stay well, then only you can take good care of your baby. To do everything for the baby, you have to stay fit, in sound mind, careful, and everything else.

When you encounter trouble on an airplane, you are told to take an oxygen mask and breathe first. Then, give it to your child. If you don't have breath, you can take care of your child's breath.

My mom use to say, Health is the key of all happiness. You may become rich, strong, or get the life you want. But if you ignore your health, you may not enjoy any of it. How can you travel and enjoy your life if you stay in a hospital bed, paralyzed, in pain? Sometimes, no medicine doesn't work. You even won't understand if there is anyone holding your hand and waiting for you or not.

So, no matter what happens, if you think you need to achieve something, give time to it. But always keep room for your own health—for food, exercise, and other activities. Mostly, love yourself. Everybody may leave you, but you shouldn't leave yourself. You need to be loved. We can say this way, there is no need to drop tears; buy yourself flowers.

Haters shouldn’t be responsible for health care.

I think, there is a major problem in Saskatoon hospitals. I went to the hospital about 3 times in 4 years. And I have seen it every time. There must be something that needs to improve.

I had unbearable pain in stomach, I went to the ER in the hospital. There I had to wait for 4 hours with this pain before doctor can see me. While I saw a man vomiting continuously with headache and other people was suffering from other problems. I have also seen nurses and doctors were making jokes and having fun together right beside these patients. They were laughing loudly. I never felt such helpless like that. You are lucky that you don’t have any problem, but you should respect other’s situation. At least in front of them.

You know what, this is not even the main problem that I am going to mention.

I saw, police bring a lady. Probably she had been raped. Police put their own jacket on her to cover her body. On the way to the operation theater one doctor was laughing and saying to the police, “Why didn’t you put her bigger jacket? It’s their right!” Then again, he laughed out loud. Police didn’t say anything, just smiled. The lady was an aboriginal.

My son was coughing with blood. We took him to the hospital. The doctor came, he was behaving very rude with my 9-year-old son, the way he was asking questions, like he was scolding him. Right beside my son’s bed, there was a same age white boy. The doctor was very nice and polite with him. We are the immigrant from Bangladesh.

I was lying in a bed at the emergency room’s corridor. I was in pain and feeling cold, but no body gave me any cushion or blanket on me. After hours one nurse noticed my condition and gave me pillow and blanket.

After 2.5 years, I was having breathing problem. I was lying at emergency room, attaching with heart and pressure monitor. Because of my problem monitor was beeping. An old lady was there beside my bed. She felt disturbed for that beeping. So, she called a nurse and asked, “Is it my monitor that is beeping”. The white male nurse said, “No, it hers”. Then he came to my area and turned off the beeping. Like if anything goes wrong with me, it won’t beep, and I may die. That’s OK, but no white people should get disturb. Later when things go worse, I had to call a passer by and ask my nurse to come and check me. She came and give me medicine with doctor’s concern and turned all machine on again.

Later when I get release, I wanted to talk with my doctor about medicine. That white nurse said, “You can take Advil Strength, if you have problem again”. I went to Walmart next day and found that Advil Strength has Gelatin, which is not Halal and we Muslims avoid it. He knew it, because I was wearing Hijab/covering my head with head scarf.

I think this mentality won’t change in a day. We need to do some workshop with health region employees including doctor’s and nurses to minimize this problem. Haters shouldn’t be responsible for health care.