CHANGING FACE OF MEDICINE

The other day I was going through an article “biotech will change the face of medicine”.

Say by 2020 the scenario will be a baby discharged from a hospital after birth will be handed over the discharge paper on a digital pen to the parents. No, it’s not a video game or a free gift from hospital it will be total delivery process plus the detail genetic codes of the baby which will be useful for treatment of different diseases by doctors in future.

Alas” in India for centuries we had CD disc in form of dried palm leaves with all genetic details, future of the child est.’s what’s new about Biotech?? We had the science and it died a natural death because our people could not understand it due to caste bias as these CD’ were under the monopoly of Brahmins. There were no computers but exact time and date were forecast for natural calamities, solar and lunar eclipse.

Now coming to Biotech, if we have a defective product we have two options, destroy it or repair it. Like wise nature have its own laws. The defective ones are rejected i.e. Abortions, IUDs, natural death at young age. But our brainy human being does the reverse. They destroy the normal ones by abortions but allow the defective ones to survive so that a huge business in the name of Biotech survives. If you observe billions of dollars is spent onBiotech.Is it really going to change the human life??A person who rarely survive after a transplant or by other means of technology only benefit the medical fraternity and that individual lives at a huge burden and cost to the society.

We have plenty of problems globally all men made but no body is concerned about it for example a Boeing leaves around two tons of carbon dioxide at a height of 30000 feet which is likely to remain there for all most a century. The ozone layer is getting thinner very fast and the there is global rise of temperature.

More people die of accidents, burns, war injuries, terrorism, floods, famine but we are spending billions to correct or repair defective Genes.What a double standard! India used to export grains before Biotech but now we import grains from Australia and China!! Every one of us are moving fast to wards our grave where gene modification is not going to save man kind with this lop sided financial wastage.

Living a borrowed life with graft or a pace maker or a bypass is no credit. The Biotech and modification of genes in food substance and human body may result in genetic mutations and more malignant cells transformation in food grain and human bodies.

Let’s save the life of young people, control of more of non communicable diseases, accidents prevention, reducing suicides deaths, stress, heart diseases and premature death due to infections by vaccinations.

First before we go to bed to sleep on the bed let’s first make the room is safe for sleeping then only we can use costly beds, bed sheets, air conditioners. Because if the roof is defective then there is danger of collapse so no amount of costly bed sheets or mattress is going to save us. So the room has to be clean and safe for habitation.. So lets’ make this world a safe place to live then we go for Bio teach.. Yes use costly A/C, curtains, bed sheets but also see that the roof does not fall on you.

Writer of this piece is Dr.Sanjoy kumar satpathy,B/188 sector18 Rourkela 769003,India.