Question

What are the immunisation programmes available at the nearest health centre in your locality? Which of these diseases are the major health problems in your area?

Answer 1

Hint: A health centre has a group of doctors having offices or surgeries and the patients visit them for their health check-up. These places deliver high quality, culturally competent, comprehensive primary care and supportive services like health education. They provide services even if the patients can’t pay much.

Complete answer:
A disease is a condition that affects the functioning of cells, tissues, and organs. There are two types of diseases, infectious and non- infectious diseases. The nearest health centres providing immunisation programmes are:
-Polio drops for preventing polio
-Vaccination against tuberculosis, hepatitis, diphtheria, and measles
- DPT for tetanus and preventing whooping cough

The major health problem in my area is tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Few other symptoms are chronic disease, fever, cough with bloody mucus, and weight loss.
Deficiency of vitamin D has been implicated in the activation of tuberculosis. In the USA it was found that a patient suffering from tuberculosis was alive for 16 months. There mainly three types of tuberculosis: Active TB Disease (TB bacteria are rapidly multiplying and invading different organs of the body), Miliary TB (a rare form of active disease that occurs when TB bacteria find their way into the bloodstream), and Latent TB Infection.
Antibiotics are taken initially; Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is a vaccine for tuberculosis disease and is often given to infants and small children in countries where TB is common. But BCG does not always protect people from getting TB.

Note: To prevent diseases: Wash your hands often, vaccinated in proper age, stay at home if you have signs and symptoms of an infection, stay away from unhealthy food, practice safer intercourse, use antibiotics with doctors concerned. Medical professionals use the medicine, therapy, surgery, and other treatments to help lessen the symptoms and cure the disease.