Cheap Indian Life

How cheap life really is in India?

This shocking piece of news that i picked up from ndtv.com tells just that.

News of people dying of riots,hunger,train-accidents,bomb-blasts,is as routine as a milk-man depositing the milk packet at the Indian house's doors every morning; for an average Indian middle class.

We almost consider the lives of our brave,young jawans on the border, as cheap. The number of deaths of armymen in Kashmir have become mere statistics for us.

While the mainstream India continues to live in the divine intoxication of Economic liberalization,BPO & IT success, there is an India which does not have a voice. It is much larger in size, but much weaker in strength.

At one end we are today world's fourth biggest economy in GDP terms. On the other we are a nation of 1 Billion people , of which almost half do not have the neccessary ingredients to sustain a decent lifestyle.

It's a damning indication of how the nation's leaders & policy makers have failed us as a Nation and as people, in more than 50 years of our so called independence.

In this small piece of disturbing news, Jayashree from Nashik could not save her dying husband. It is obvious that since she was poor, her voice was not heard. Could this have happened to an upper middle class or a rich chap in India?

courtesy : ndtv.com

Man dies due to hospital negligence

Kishore Belsare
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 (Nasik):

In Nasik, carelessness on the part of a hospital ended in tragedy, when one man lost his life in a horrible mix up. Gangaram was on his way home on his friend's motorbike when a truck hit them. While his friend died on the spot, Gangaram was unconscious, when they were sent to the Nasik Civil hospital. An injured Gangaram was in the ambulance for three hours in the hospital but the doctors, thinking him to be dead, sent him to the mortuary.

Slow death

Gangaram slowly succumbed to his injuries, despite the fact that his wife Jayshree, kept saying he was still alive but to no avail."I told the doctors that my husband is alive but they did not believe me and sent him for a post mortem. I blame the doctors and the authorities," said Jayshree.

Under pressure, due to Jayshree's persistent protests, the hospital conducted an inquiry.It was then they realised that Gangaram was still alive when he came to the hospital, but died a slow death in the mortuary. "It happened because of the negligence of our doctor and we have suspended him. We have decided to employ both the wives in our hospital on a contract basis," said D M Vaidya, Civil Surgeon.It was indeed a bizarre and tragic end, one that the police are still investigating.