Increasing diseases among journalists. What is the treatment?
Diabetes, blood pressure and heart diseases are diseases that are increasing continuously. Journalists are suffering from these diseases more than ordinary people because the diet of journalists is often unbalanced, their workload is more than ordinary people, while they are weak. Due to their financial condition, they are always suffering from mental stress. Heart disease experts say that journalists need to exercise more than normal people, eat a balanced diet and pay attention to their health. Especially those journalists who have complaints of high blood pressure, diabetes or any other disease because such journalists are more likely to suffer from heart disease. According to cardiologists, above all, those journalists who have a family history of heart disease should lead a very careful life because it is not unusual for them to have a heart attack or complain of various heart diseases. Is. Cardiologist Dr. Najeeb and Dr. Abdullah Khan Discussing the increasing cases of heart diseases among journalists, he said that any person who reaches the age of 35 years has an increased chance of suffering from heart diseases, but if you are a journalist whose workload It is more than normal people, they are always suffering from mental stress, they don’t get time to pay any attention to their diet and they are suffering from addiction of one or the other drug, then these are some of the reasons due to which most journalists They suffer from heart diseases. Cardiologist and Vice President Pakistan Cardiac Society Professor Dr. Ambar Ashraf believes that every year September 28 is celebrated as World Heart Disease Day for public awareness. According to him, 20 million people die every year due to heart disease. The main reason is our negligence, 80% of heart diseases can be controlled if people live their lives with caution. They believe that during the last few years, the diseases There has been a significant increase in cardiac cases and journalists are also involved in it as well as common people. Most of the journalists just sit in the office and work the whole day, they don’t go to the ground for weeks and months, even years, they prefer to eat unhealthy food instead of healthy food, the work load is heavy and often journalists financial position is weak so they suffer from heart diseases and sometimes die due to lack of proper treatment. According to the experts, all people, especially journalists, should take care of the following things, in which the first number is diabetes, the second is high blood pressure, smoking, living a sedentary lifestyle, eating unhealthy food, stress. Journalists who live full lives often suffer from heart diseases, journalists who live according to these symptoms do not suffer from heart disease. went Because having any of these risk factors in journalists can also lead to cardiovascular diseases for them. According to experts, there is no doubt that journalists are suffering from mental stress like ordinary people due to inflation and unemployment, and the cases of journalists suffering from heart diseases have increased during the last 2 years. Only if If we look at the data of the year 2022 and 2023, it will be known that during 2 years in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and especially in Peshawar, around 10 journalists have fallen victim to heart disease while one has also lost his life. Most of the victims of heart diseases are senior journalists, according to the data of Peshawar Press Club, Shamim Shahid, senior reporter associated with Express TV, Shahid Hameed, senior journalist and Sama TV are among the victims of heart diseases during the last two years. Reporter Abdul Rehman of Aaj TV, Senior Reporter Shahabuddin of Aaj TV, Mudassar Shah of VOA, AVT Khyber channel.
Reporter of Dunya TV, Samin Jan, died due to heart disease. Journalists affected by heart disease were contacted to find out the reason, then senior journalist Shamim Shahid said that he spent almost his entire life in the field of journalism. Khabi did not think to pay attention to his health as it should have been and that is the reason why he had a severe heart attack in July 2022 after which stents were installed at Peshawar Institute of Cardiology and now he is living on medication. . According to Shamim Shahid, the stunts were installed free of cost on the health card, but now, no one has provided any support for the thousands of rupees spent for the purchase of medicines, re-check-ups and tests, neither the government nor any other relevant organization. According to him, he has been taking medicines daily for the past one year, buying expensive medicines is not an easy task in this era of inflation.
According to Abdul Rahman, a senior journalist and reporter of Sama TV, he has never had such a problem in his life before, but in the third week of February this year, after eating, he started to feel the stinging of needles in his chest. C performed ECG and echocardiography and it was found that three arteries of the heart were blocked. On the advice of doctors, bypass was done in a private hospital. The bypass was done free of charge through the health card, but after the bypass, complications of infection arose and he became seriously ill. He was under treatment in the hospital for 13 days. The cost of re-hospitalization was paid from the insurance card provided by the office and some was paid by myself. Other things including bearing the cost of daily taxi cost 2000 rupees per day for several months. According to Abdul Rahman, after about seven months on September 20, the wound was healed
Regarding the provision of relief to journalists suffering from health problems and heart disease, Director General of Information Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Imran said that journalists are provided with sufficient relief in case of marriage, marriage and illness. Along with health facilities, cash money is also given to them so that they do not have to face any problem. Funds are released accordingly. According to Imran, a journalist from Waziristan is currently undergoing treatment at Hayatabad Medical Complex, who has been given a check of Rs. A provision of Rs 1,000 has also been made to provide financial assistance to unemployed journalists to some extent
Source: Peshawar Live
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