Compulsory Medical Checkup: A Panacea For Controlling Disease And Mortality Rate

Compulsory medical check up could be a breach of individual rights and freedom. In this modern age, everyone has the liberty to self determination. Hence, when policies like this is enacted, the government should take cognizance that the United Nations charter, a law book where individual rights and privileges are spelt out, must be considered. The move to enact compulsory medical check up may be for good intentions for the individuals and government, the only thing that makes it look like a threat is that it breaks human rights laws.

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From another angle, we can deduce the fact that medical facilities is not available to many people, especially in the rural areas, this may lead to a high rate migration to the urban centres which is already overcrowded, thereby causingore have m to human lives.

There is also the need to check the ratio of medical workers to the national population figure. When this is considered, you will ce to a realization that a medical doctor, both in the public and private healthcare sector may have to attend to a very high rate of patients which would result in fatique for the medical workers.

However, I feel that when this law is enacted, it will help reduce the high rate of avoidable deaths that we record in our nation.
The panacae of traditional medicine and the increase in failure of orthodox medicine to alleviate the medical condition of people suffering from some kinds of ailment like diabetes, hypertension and stroke may make this move impossible..

OTHER BENEFITS OF MEDICAL CHECK UP

There are several reasons why medical checkup is beneficial apart from what has been measure earlier.
Prevention of Diseases
When individuals embark on regular or compulsory medical checkup where tests and screenings are carried out, the medical workers are able to detect a likelihood of a disease and make necessary move to prevent.

Early Detection
People who are not open to treatment would be able to access medical checkup and detection of an upcoming ailment where timely treatment will be carried out. Here, the policy makers should not only make checkups compulsory but should take responsibility of caring for the sick or better still subsidize the cost of.medival treatment for all to access it.

Saving Cost
In recent time, it has been recorded that Nigerians have seek medical tourism in parts of the world especially in India, Germany, the US and other parts.of Europe. Ailment that are treated through this model are those ailments that have mostly gone out hand. But when healthcare checkups are made compulsory and regular, it helps to detect an ailment and also to tackle it early enough, thereby saving the high cost of having to travel abroad for surgery and other medical attention.

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Peace of Mind
There is joy and carefulness when someone receives a confirmation to be in a good shape of health. Do you that many people do not have a knowledge of their health status because they do not have access to medical care. A professional confirmation may help reduce the levelmof anxiety among people.

Monitoring
Regular and prompt medical checkup can help monitor health indicators like blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels to prevent color manage chronic health conditions.

Improved General Health
There will be a positive rise in the medical statistics in the national database if the procedure is enacted. The death rate will reduce and infant and maternal mortality rate will reduce drastically.

Generally speaking, compulsory medical checkup could be a good way to health individuals live a good life though it could breach the privacy right of the individual.