World Brain Health Day: Prevention starts from school seats and lasts for life – something for the fatherland – ✍️ Mr. Salah Gharib
International Brain Health Day is extremely important to highlight our most complex and vital member: the brain. In light of growing health challenges, interest in all prevention methods becomes an inevitable necessity, especially since we see the repercussions of negligence about our successive generations.
I remember correctly, and I am a student at Al -AbyAd high school in Sudan in the 1970s, how I achieved the importance of reason and the development of its capacities early. This awareness promised me to establish the “association of mental hobbies”, which aimed to encourage students to mental activities, such as failures and the resolution of puzzles and intellectual debates. This experience was an affirmation that seeds of health awareness in the brain should be cultivated from an early age and that prevention begins from school seats.
Today, we are witnessing exceptional circumstances, the importance of this double consciousness. Societies are affected by conflicts and crises, and the human and national role in the management of the most affected groups is highlighted here. For example, we have great responsibility for the elderly of the Sudanese community to come in Egypt due to war conditions. These grandparents and grandmothers who have concerns of movement and loss of homeland need psychological, social and special health support. We must guarantee them a safe and stable environment that helps them maintain their mental health and reduces the effect of psychological trauma which can affect their cognitive functions. The provision of complete health care and the supply of social activities that stimulate thought and work to involve them in society are all the stages necessary to preserve their healthy and active mind.
It is not less important than this interest in the health of the Sudanese community in Egypt. The generation of young people is the pillar of the future, and they are the most vulnerable to the effects of psychological and social pressures resulting from the movement and the radical change in lifestyle. We must provide them with psychological support and encourage them to adopt healthy lifestyles that include appropriate nutrition, exercise, adequate sleep and reduce excessive pressure. We must also pay them particular attention to social education and integration, because the active and educated spirit is the basis of the construction of a bright future.
In conclusion, brain health is not luxury, but rather the cornerstone of the construction of a strong and productive society. Let’s enter International Brain Health Day to renew our commitment to prevention and care for this precious organ, starting with our children and young people, to the elderly, to ensure a better future for all.
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