It was around three in the morning when I saw a voicemail from my aunt, I thought she was in the hospital again, thanks to the heavens wasn’t anything serious. She said in the message:”we have a big flood at home, please be careful when you come back from work”. I started to imagine myself coming into a flood of two feet deep with things floating around. I got home around four and the carpet was completely wet and probably three inches deep of water from the ground. I had some personal lost, some chargers and my notebook. The situation made me think about the flooding in Argentina and Colombia, those were big floods. At the next day we talked about with my aunt, and what is really sad over material lost, the human lives that were taken for the flood in those countries. The problem make me wonder first why governments don’t invest in prevention instead just justify later the cause of human and material lost. Second why there is any international intervention in the preventive level to assist less developed areas.The flooding like the rest of natural disasters are out of our control but how about policies and founds that could help to relief or prevent the final price of the problem.
Prevention is master piece in the Heatlh system, if we see countries like cuba, where we find a strong Health system from which we can learn from. They save many lives with the emergency system that educated people to act before disasters. Education is key and they have invest a lot on it.
We'll have the U.N. meeting coming and the Latin American comission of Drugs and democracy where policies can be discussed toward a reform in the international health system. We should learn from all damage is done because natural hazard and look forward new plans that prevent instead treat and regret.
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