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Question
"Prevention is better than cure". Explain.
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Solution
Prevention is better than cure because of the following reasons:
(a) Curing a disease takes time and the person suffering from a disease has to cut off his work and daily routines to get complete rest.
(b) A person once infected serves as a medium of spreading the disease to others.
(c) Once a person gets infected, his or her body gets affected and he or she may never recover completely.
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