Health awareness must begin before the hospital ward’s hard lessons

LAST month, I sat in a hospital consultation room, watching my father receive news that would change my family’s life forever. He was diagnosed with advan-ced lung cancer.

The conversation that followed was filled with medical terms, treatment options, and questions that none of us were prepared to answer. Yet what stayed with me the most was not only the diagnosis itself but the realisation that many health battles begin quietly long before a person reaches the hospital.