Every person gets sick every now and then and it is something very much natural. It, in fact, is the proof that there are imperfections in human body and the systems and the organs that work in human body have to face problems every now and then. The diseases are of various kinds and they influence people in different ways. Some of these diseases can be termed as major; a few some can even cause death, while others are minor and negligible. In the meanwhile, there are different reasons of why people become sick; mostly it is their interaction with the world around that makes them sick. There are viruses and bacteria that attack human bodies and during their attack cause disorder. Even though human beings have immune system that has the potential to counter these viruses and bacteria; however, on certain occasions it is dominated by them.

Like there are myriads of diseases, in the same way there are myriads of reactions to them as well. Different people respond differently when they are attacked by diseases. Some people become very much depressed and get pessimistic; however there are others who neglect even grave diseases. It is exciting to observe that the reactions of different people have different types of effects on the diseases. Those, who fight bravely with the diseases, get rid of them easily, while others who become too much disheartened are bound to live with their diseases longer. It appears that the attitude through which the individuals react to the diseases has direct affect on the immune system. On the other hand, there are other sorts of reactions as well. There are few who visit doctors before they get completely sick, while there are some others who do not favor going to the doctors for some of the diseases and let the diseases get better themselves with the passage of time. And there are many people who do not choose only for the scientific medical treatment. There are different people who visit clergies who have their own ways of treatment. They mostly treat the people by reciting some verses from the Holy Books or give the patients talisman, which they wear around their necks.

On certain occasions, some verses are written on a piece of paper which is dipped into the water and drunk by patient. These are only few of the ways; there are many other interesting ones as well. These sorts of treatments can be best connected with the concept that the diseases in human bodies are because of the anger of God, or because of the some disobedience to the teachings of scriptures, therefore, the efforts are made to end that anger. These are the concepts that are actually from the ancient times that still continue in religious countries.

Then there is homeopathic system of treating the disease that tries to treat the patients with alternative medicine. The system was principally introduced by Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. This system is based on the concept that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people will heal similar symptoms in sick people, as well. The system is not based on true science and the scientists and medical doctors typically do not consider its worth. Nevertheless, there are thousands of people in the world who go after this type of treatment.

There are a number of people who believe in certain other types of treatments as well. Among them the treatment through physical exercise, different sorts of meditation, yoga, acupuncture, and witchcraft are the most dominant. These all endeavors demonstrate that human beings are not very contented with diseases and they desire to get rid of them in every probable way. As a matter of fact the urge of human beings to heal their disease has given rise to diverse types of treatments. As the well-known Russian Writer Leo Tolstoy says, “No disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine -- not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs.

This simple thought could not occur to the doctors (as it cannot occur to a wizard that he is unable to work his charms) because the business of their lives was to cure, and they received money for it and had spent the best years of their lives on that business. But above all that thought was kept out of their minds by the fact that they saw they were really useful… Their usefulness did not depend on making the patient swallow substances for the most part harmful (the harm was scarcely perceptible because they were given in small doses) but they were useful, necessary, and indispensable because they satisfied a mental need of the invalid and those who loved her -- and that is why there are, and always will be, pseudo-healers, wise women, homoeopaths, and allopaths. They satisfied that eternal human need for hope of relief, for sympathy, and that something should be done, which is felt by those who are suffering.”

It is important to note that one of the essential human rights is to have access to better health and every country in the world must make sure that their people are provided with health facilities. There are so many aspects of life that are directly linked with improved health. Herophilus believes, “When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.” With such significance of health, it is important that in our country Afghanistan the authorities must make sure to offer best health facilities to the people in order that they can fight deadly diseases. What Harry S. Truman had said is required for our country as well - “We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all its citizens deserves the help of all the nation.”