Satwant Singh Rissam
India is facing its biggest crisis in decades and healthcare system of our country has got exposed as the Covid – 19 pandemic has hit India badly. This situation has made clear that our governments never invested on health care system required in times of deadly disease. The central and state governments appear to be helpless and are just making efforts to repair the situation with minimum facilities. In past some weeks, many videos and news came which reflected sufferings of the frontline workers (especially healthcare employees) due to the shortage of facilities and medical equipments in government hospitals. Although the government is trying hard to balance the situation during this pandemic but it is very far from the basic necessities required for this emergency. While claims are being made about large scale efforts to fight this medical emergency but it appears that we are too late to start and nothing of that amount can be done now to settle this tragedy.
The whole state of affairs has reflected that time has come that we think of alternate measures to be adapted to build the healthcare sector and we cannot remain dependent only on governments. You must be wondering how it is possible? There is big scope for contribution in health care sector from all the religious organizations in India. Several religious institutions across country spend crores of rupees on religious propagation every year. Many famous religious places here have monthly cash offerings in crores and all of these collections can turn around the healthcare system in just few years. In the past during tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones etc we have seen religious organizations coming in front to work during disaster situations. Again throughout the current Covid-19 pandemic various religious organizations are supplying food and medicines to labourers, health care workers and the other needy sections of the society.
To put things in perspective, I think time has come that all the religious organizations should now onwards evolve its working and build up healthcare systems through charity initiatives across country. It is the present situation which has shown us that we need to put our donations and cash offerings maximum in health care system. All the religious organizations should immediately set targets to fund and set-up hospitals with intensive care medicines and life support systems in next 2- 3 years. This money in shape of cash offerings instead should be used towards healthcare projects and it could be the best way to propagate any religious ideology. The true service to our respective communities and society in general would be through these healthcare projects. And for this, all the communities can very easily get the collections in shape of charity from world over. One of the biggest reforms in this sector could come from the Sikh community as the community is known world over for its spirit of service. Moreover, the basics of Sikh religion also stresses on the equality of man, irrespective of caste, creed or religion. Everybody would be happy to contribute in such transparent healthcare projects and get their names memorialized with contribution into such projects.
This is not something which cannot be achieved by us. First thing that is required is that we need to convince our respective religious organizations and their managements to change their approach toward expenses. Secondly, we need new donors who understand the importance of such contributions in society. Lastly, the reserves of cash offering from earlier generations can be spent to start off in this direction without waiting anymore. For me writing about this is like an appeal to all the religious organizations and people on large to consider this idea and start working on this within your communities in order to provide life-saving facilities to the fellow citizens of India. With this, we would be able to channelize the donations of all individuals for a moral cause and even accomplish numerous objectives in one go. With this very simply and in the best possible manner we will be giving shape to the efforts of several individuals and paying true homage to our Gods. In India, all the religions should turn towards the nation-building by setting up such health care system. The future of religion in our country should go in this road which in turn could take us on path to secular belief systems.
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