The case for microchipping

A child - precious, priceless and very special. You would not want to ever allow your little one to be kidnapped, lost or get in trouble, yet more than three quarter of a million kids get lost or kidnapped every year.

Often a mother cannot find her soldier son, a wife cannot locate her air force pilot husband and a brother his only sister lost in a tsunami. We will do almost anything to get back the people we loved and lost, almost anything.

Today we can improve our chances of finding that son, husband or sister very significantly. The answer is microchipping each among us.

Microchipping will significantly reduce cases of mistaken identities in war, help parents find their lost children, assists authorities identify those who have passed away. In emergencies critical medical data can be obtained from a patient unable to communicate. It will help us cut our losses, reduce the crime rate, find those we love and in general, improve the human condition. It will take us into the future.

I must admit that there are those who are resistant, uncomfortable with this change. It is normal. Change is a constant, but it is also change that drives us, moulds us and makes us who we are.

Microchipping a person is that very change that we need to address, adopt and allow. Let us not lose those we love, let us be able to help the injured, find the lost, and improve ourselves.

For those who have reservations, ask that mother who cannot find her baby, question the wife who yearns for her husband or that brother who prays for a lost sister. Let us not wait, let us become the change we want to see.

The reader is an engineering specialist working for an instrumentation firm in Dubai