Starting a new project always fills us with passionate joy and it is precisely now that we consolidate a new subcommittee under the watchful eye and committed will of Enrico Rizzato.
Very soon, proposals and suggestions from all Asgardians with a vision will join this initiative, for now I want to share with all of you the words of Enrico Rizzato, Chairman of the subcommittee on health and wellness.
Vigilant and attentive to the call for various tasks that we will undertake, the following people are active within said subcommittee:
Chair of the Citizenship Committee , Ariadne Gallardo
Deputy Chairman of the Citizenship Committee , Nicola Macina
Deputy Chairman of Parliament and Member of the Citizenship Committee,
Benjamin Dell
Chairman of the Subcommittee of Health and Wellness and Member of the Citizenship Committee
Enrico Rizzato and the asgardian Mayor Valerio Traldi
We give character and flag to start activities on this date: 17th Aquarius 0005,
January 17, 2021
I invite you to pay attention to the words of the Chairman of the Subcommittee on health and wellness:
There are those who say that, in order to find the right path for a prosperous future, it is necessary to know well the path already undertaken, that is, where one started from and what goals have already been reached.If we talk about health, well-being and medicine, the path we have to take into consideration has a very distant beginning, which we can ideally place in Ancient Greece.
Hippocrates of Kos (460 BC – 370 BC), a Greek physician from the age of Pericles, is often referred to as the «Father of Medicine» in recognition of his enduring contributions to the field, as founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine. It is, probably rightly, the personality that led medicine to break away from the other fields with which it had traditionally been associated (theurgy and philosophy), thus affirming medicine itself as a profession.Since then, the medical profession and those other professions associated with it have tried to deal with the health of human beings, also, when necessary, with a holistic approach; this has led, over time, to enormous results, and, especially in the last two centuries, many terrible problems that have afflicted human health in the past have been solved, or rather defeated, thanks to the development of medicine.
Centuries have passed since times of Hippocrates. But that same basic approach hasn’t changed, so much so that doctors still do today the Hippocratic Oath. For our part, we have recently entered the fifth year of Asgardia’s existence; although our Nation still has many embryonic contours, in particular with the recent pandemic that has hit humanity on a planetary level, within Parliament the need was felt by most to protect the health and wellness of our Citizens, through the establishment of a Parliamentary Sub-Committee with the aim of soliciting the discussion of the legislative aspects related to general medicine, occupational medicine, health services, healthcare treatments, therapies and assistance, and of promoting initiatives and legislative proposals related to these last matters.In doing this, we deliberately intended to reconnect our action to those ideals of ancient greek classicism which saw the health of the human being not only in physical but also in psychological and intellectual well-being.
If then I am allowed to say a few words about my personal vision of things, we really need healthy Asgardians. And so, in our future, we will need an agile and functional Health System, whose establishment is one of the several goals that our Sub-Committee is already striving to achieve. The most important and basic reason is that the human race, will not be able to colonize space if it cannot count on medicine and healthcare up to the challenges offered by a plethora of different environments that are decidedly hostile to human beings; for example, even just giving birth to children into a zero-gravity (…or low gravity) environment will be a difficult challenge, and our Citizens will need state-of-the-art medical facilities and equipment, as well as trained medical personnel capable of coping with difficult scientific tasks to accomplish.So there is this long thread that unwinds from our past, and which, like Ariadna’s ball of yarn in the Minotaur’s Labyrinth, will hopefully one day lead us to successfully face the health challenges and threats to our Citizens, that are going to come out from what now it is perhaps still unknown to us.
