I love my India
Just came back from work and I am in a nice spiritual mood. Here's the story.I was about 750 meters from my house and it took me about 45 minutes to cover that distance. The reason? The lights were not working during the rush hour and there was no traffic police monitoring the light. I dialed the emergency number (100) to ask for some police help to sort out the traffic but surprises of surprises....no one picked up the phone. I was confused so I checked the number I dialed. It was correct. I dialed again. No response again. Hmmmm. And thats when I got the spiritual insight. If after all this insanity, you and I are still alive then god does exist. We Indians are blessed. Each and every one of us.
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My friend's father got admitted in the ICU at the Max Hospital for heart problems. Here's this story.
My friend's father was a bit thoughtful about his heart so he went for a regular check up to Max Hospital. The doctors mentioned that he might have had a minor heart attack about 4 days back so they admitted him in the ICU and have been conducting some tests on him. I was telling some other friend about this and he mentioned that its a game private hospitals play now in India. His relative had a similar problem and he went to Max Hospital. The doctors later operated on him and put in a stent. Cost = INR3Lacs. Three months later the stent got dislodged (or something like that). They went back to Max. Another operation. Cost = INR 3Lacs. Hmmmm. This is not the first time I have come across something like this about private hospitals. So the choice seems to be between government hospitals where you have to probably wait 3 months to get a date for an operation and private hospitals where you might be getting operated on without there being any major issues.
Are you aware of any such issues with private hospitals?
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Back to the 750 meters in 45 minutes story. Imagine a situation where someone you love calls up the police because there might be a lunatic trying to break in and enter the house. Ring...ring...ring...no f##ing response. She tries again. No bloody response again. The lunatic has entered the house in the meantime. She finally gets through and the police registers the complaint and a police team leaves the police station to save the situation. 750 meters in 45 minutes!!!!
Have you ever wondered what YOU can do to help such situations? Have you ever spent more than a minute to think what the permanent solutions could be for issues such as this? Do you value anyone's life? Do you value your own life?
Labels: India, Police, Traffic
posted by Musings on India @ 8:56 AM
2 Comments:
There is no deterrent. Thats the problem.
Who can cause this deterrent to be there? Government, Law Related Agencies.(Police/Ministries/Courts etc.)
Why are they not doing it? Because either they are themselves corrupt (as in Police) or lethargice for one reason or another (as in courts).
Speaking of Courts - have u visitied one anytime? Well i hope not. A new breed of corruption exists there - to ward off Sting Operators. It is what i call WHITE CORRUPTION. Ok... take this LIC Policy from me or else.. keeping making round of courts for next 10 years. Is it a bribe demand? SURE. Can it be contested in court. Hell NO.
Actually lot of problems faced by every Indians. Middle class people like us only complaining against them not actually working on that. No one take social responssibility because of police harrasement. I have faced this problem. Medical field alredy handed over to private sector.
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