What Is The Moral Of Rx For Survival By Alfred Sommer

The episode “Back to the Basics” in the video series, RX For Survival, show the importance of essential needs like good nutrition and clean water. The video shows how bad nutritional diets in poor countries could lead to detrimental heath consequences that could be prevented by the intake of vitamin A in poor countries. The video also shares how lack of clean water along with poor sanitation is associated with infections. Clean water and healthy nutrition are not accessible to poor countries, which makes people living in these poor countries susceptible to acquiring infections and diseases. The video also touches on the obesity problem in the U.S. and the need to stop increasing rates of obesity among children. The video features an Ophthalmologist, named Alfred Sommer. Sommer began using drops of Vitamin A to help children with night blindness in Indonesia. Nigh blindness is caused by lack of Vitamin A and Sommer was determined to help children receive Vitamin A in through an easier form than the injection of Vitamin A. Sommer …show more content…
Sommer was ridiculed for presenting the simple solution of giving children Vitamin A through capsules of oral drops. This goes to show how basics like proper nutrition cannot be overlooked and should be a public health concern not only in poor countries but also in industrialized countries. For example, obese people in the U.S. are over consuming food and are not sticking to a proper nutrition and it is causing severe health problems at an early age that is likely to continue into adulthood if a healthy diet is not adopted. Also, sanitation and access to clean water is a major public health problem in poor countries. Providing water systems that offer clean water reduce many health issues and help improve societies as a