WORLD YOUTH AND HEALTH

Owing to the fact that around 1800 million young people living globally which is almost one quarter of the total population of the world. Most of them are between the ages of 10 and 24 years. These individuals got extraordinary abilities to shape and lead the world’s social, economic and health sectors. Other than this, group which we name as “Youth” usually set social behaviors and trends for future.

It is another bitter fact that due to lack of health care and education, 2.6 million annual deaths are among young people.¹ A study shows that mostly those deaths are preventable by education of moral health behaviors and continuous monitoring of youth conduct. Link between youth and health is so important to understand to develop a healthy lifestyle and good quality of life. Particularly, it provides the elements for good mental and physical fitness during the growth stage. Getting satisfactory amounts of nutrients i.e. calcium, vitamin D and weight-bearing exercise for healthy bones and teeth is just one example of how crucial it is for young people to eat right and exercise regularly.

According to World Youth Report² Youth related concerns include imprecise behavior, excessive use narcotics and drugs, so it was essential to policy and plan related to tobacco and other hazardous drug control. Similarly training associated to food consumption need global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol and control on diet. This can be done by recommendations on the marketing of healthy foods containing healthy nutrients and non-alcoholic beverages to youngsters. Marketing can be done to develop healthy sports culture and healthy physical activities.

Another important issue related to Youth is reproductive health, productive health policy for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections is an essential need. 

 As figure shows there is healthy amount of people in 3^rd world who didn’t hear about AIDS which shows the lack of interest and knowledge especially in third world. Similarly there are numerous examples where females got babies before 18. A solid strategy is required especially for the youth of third world. A generic sex awareness programs are required to involve those who can’t afford internet or cannot access web based knowledge.

Pakistan is one of the largest country in counts of population, it got 35% of youth population and rank 65^th in the world. All above mentioned issues are the major issues in Pakistan including drug to HIV. Youth as the major source of Pakistan, youth-friendly multiplicative health services are prerequisites to promote harmless health behaviors. A life skills-based prospectus needs to be developed in Pakistan schooling systems to address these issues.

References:

[1]        Youth and Health risks, 64^th world health assembly, WHA64.28

[2]        World Youth Report, Chapter 4 “Youth Health Issues”

Gravitational Ripples

So here is one of the biggest astrophysical discoveries of the past century.
In 1916, the year after the discovery of field equations of general relativity, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves which was not proved experimentally todate. According to Einstein's theory, the fabric of space-time can become curved by anything massive in the Universe. When any cataclysmic event happen, such as black holes merging or stars exploding, these curves can ripple out elsewhere as gravitational waves, just like if someone had dropped a stone in a pond.
Here is the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves and observation of a binary black hole system merging to form a single black hole. This observations provide unique access to the properties of space-time in the strong-field, high-velocity regime and confirm predictions of general relativity for the nonlinear dynamics of highly disturbed black holes.
By the time those ripples get to us on Earth, they're tiny (around a billionth of the diameter of an atom), which is why scientists have struggled for so many years to find them. Here the signal was observed with a matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 24 and a false alarm rate estimated to be less than 1 event per 203 000 years.
Results are published in PRL:
http://journals.aps.org/…/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

Abdul Salam

In my opinion, faith is a matter between man and his Creator. So, let God judge Salam for his faith.
Salam was not only a scientist but was the founder of SUPARCO (Space Research), PAEC (Atomic Energy), PINSTECH (Nuclear Science) and INSC (Nathiagali college). 
Not only this he was the founder for Third world Acadmey of Sciences (TWAS), International Center for Theoratical Physcis (ICTP) Italy. He was the one who floated the idea of establishing a high-level Commission on Science and Technology which later become COMSATS.
Most of the people dnt know he was the one who introduced Higg's Bosons standard model which is applicable right now. He was the one awarded as Nobel Prize in physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg in 1979 due to his contribution to the theory of unified weak and electromagnetic interaction.
Lets pay tribute to the legendary Abdul Salam (1926-1996)

Liver Transplant

Few days back i had a comprehensive meeting with Lt. Col. Dr. Hanif sb who is one of the few liver transplant specialist in pakistan. He was on his training in Southkorea for a month and i am lucky to had a meeting with him. I discussed with him about the liver transplant issue in pakistan and got shocked to hear some of the facts he states and wanted to share with you:

1) Liver transplant average price is 5 to 6 million PKR.

2) There are more than 1000 patients per year in pakistan and most of them are from Kpk

3) There are only few doctors in pakistan who are specialized in liver transplant. 

4) Only army is working on sending some of its employees to get special trainings on the said matter

After his discussion we came up with some of the suggestions which might help us to initiate a massive project. 

In order to increase the efficiency of work, government need to take initiatives to send some doctors in order to get liver transplant hands on training. As per his suggestion South korea is one of the leading country who is doing more than 2 surgeries per day and could train our fellows with recent developmemt in this feild. If Govt. take the responsibility to cover some of the expenses of the training of doctors which can help to sign an MOU between korean and Govt. medical associations. 

Another very important point is awarness program. Most of the HCV cases are due non hygienic water usage. Govt. can initiate an awareness program explaining the basic ideas how to avoid HCV. In countries like pakistan it is very rare to have regular check up so most of the victims were unaware of having HCV virus. Luckily they can get to know while doing the blood donation etc. so it is very important to  start awareness programs via social media and other channels.

Arslan

14-12-2015

Real ISLAM!!

And now you pseudo liberals of our islam are saying that //Daesh// does not represent true Islam. I think it would be better if we first settle what is “true Islam” It would also be appropriate to accept the fact that all the casualities and issues are related to Islam. Why Islam is being used by so called forces? There must be dailogue to understand the nature of true islam.

Muslims start arguing the hollowcast where hundreds of humans were killed with the name of chiristianity but they forget the fact that christians are also the beleiver of One God.
Most of the mulims living in the foreign lands are there because of Economic gains, Amenities of life, A better lifestyle and at the same time harbored extreme hatred for those who gave them shelter, equal rights, and a lifestyle they could never have imagined in their home countries.

They also extracted maximum benefits under social security from their hosts and at the same time also felt “sadistic pleasure" when the same people were hit by the terrorist. They expressed joy when Western cities were bombed and felt relieved when the “misguided infidels” were targeted.

And now when the raids are underway they have come on the streets claiming that Daesh is not real Islam. Let me tell you that the First world does not have time now to determine which Islam is real and which is not. Nor are they going to conduct a research on that. Earlier the Americans and now the Europeans have suffering. Its a point of ponder to all our muslim ummah to think where is the flaw. Usually most of the muslims donot even read the teaching of Islam. They are following the facts being taught to them by their forfathers. Infact the upcoming generation donot event feel the need of learning islam; claiming the fact that Science is being much evolved compared with rigid conservative islamic thoughts!!

I would like to urge the whole islamic society to focus on the fact that we have to learn the basic pillars of Islam apart from sectarian conflicts. 

Arslan

Acquiring Patience

One of the greatest assets of a human being is patience. Impatience seems to be a part of our instincts and often gets the better of us. Enduring situations which are unexpected and coming across scenarios that jerk and jolt us is common in life. One often reacts in such situations and becomes either frenzied or depressed. Both are actually forms of frustration. The key to high conduct is self-control. We should not lose cool when anger and frustration overcome us.

Here are some practical tips to help us acquiring this all important trait:

i. We must evaluate the triggers that make us lose patience. We will often see a pattern. This will help us evaluate our personality and we can plan beforehand how to react. We must continue to suggest ourselves that when the crunch time comes we will not lose our cool. Such auto-suggestive behaviour does help.

ii. We should think of people who are in distress: observing the orphans, the handicapped, the widows, the sick and the need around us increases our resolve and helps us prepare to tackle tough situations.

iii. We must develop a habit of preparing for the worst. Worst case scenario preparation is something which in instrumental in making us shockproof as far as possible.

iv. We must remind ourselves that things take time and materialize only after they have passed through a natural process. Showing impatience on such occasions is like showing dissatisfaction on the scheme of God.

v. We must think of the harms which losing patience cause and how they adversely affect our reputation and character. It causes tension and uneasiness among our surroundings. Those we know start to avoid us.

vi. We must read stories of people whose patience and edurance won them the day. We need human examples to inspire us and if keep looking for them, we will find plenty.

vii. Fasting is a worship ritual that instills loads of patience in us if we fast while keeping its essence in mind. Besides the mandatory fasts, we must try to keep some optional fasts each month.

viii. After all such efforts besides others are made, we must then turn to God and pray to Him to grant us patience. Praying without making an effort is not going to win us God’s favour. We must do all we can and then pray to Him.

Credits to Mr.Shehzad Saleem

                                   KAFLA Walkathon 

Last Sunday I got the opportunity to participate in a charity walkathon for the earthquake victims of Nepal, arranged by KAFLA (Korean association for foreign language Academies). The venue for the walk was Gwanghwamun Civil Park, all the participants start gathering around 8 to 9AM. Before the walk some guests from KAFLA and National Assembly deliver their remarks on the event.

Walk was divided into 14 stations where some of the random station got surprise gifts via drawing box for the participants. We started the event with some of the KTO members. I felt lucky to have one of the KTO member who was really great with the navigation system. At the first station there was a prize box fortunately I won some drinks. 

We tracked our map out and continued to make our way from the beautiful village and calm cafes to the other 14 stations. We smash one more prize station before the halfway point, there I won a set of pen with some Gatorade. It was a sort of publicity for the upcoming Winter Olympics coming to Korea in 2018. The last prize was on the top of the hill where the view of seoul was extraordinary.

In the end of walkathon we had our lunch at the nearest subways station and enjoyed kids dodgeball game followed by lucky draws. Unfortunately I did not won anything this time. Overall it was fun and I had a great time with everyone. Organizers distributes some gift bags and cups at the end of the event. If you want to try the work from KAFLA and co you may visit their website here http://www.kafla.net/