Dried moss as seen through a kids microscope.
Sometimes life does throw a brickbat. Amit met with a bike accident. He barely made it to the ICU. I had never been to Cooper hospital and it was an eye opening experience.
The night we took him to the casualty was a regular rush night. 3-4 patients per bed. They saw his condition and started working immediately. But there was only one stretcher and only 2 nurses. All rushing around. He was then admitted to the Trauma ICU. The first 48 odd hours were hell for all of us - total mental and physical exhaustion.
He was in the Trauma ICU for 11 days. Then another 6 in a ward. Thankfully his legs and hands were not broken. Only about 5 ribs and the collar bone. The real risk were the numerous internal injuries and the head injury.
We got him back home after a miraculous come back from the brink. The tireless efforts of the doctors and his instinct to live pulled him back. He now has a long slow recovery ahead of him.
Government hospitals are an experience you will not easily forget. They cater to terrific loads with minimal staff. The poorest of the poor are not turned away here. I routinely saw doctors doing 24hr duty. These are the ones learning in the attached collage. Nowhere else can you get this kind of experience. Despite the multitudes of dogs, cats and heans staying on the premisis, despite every corner being used as a spitting zone, despite the mosquitoes and the dirt, despite the stinking and overflowing toilets - despite all this people do get cured. People who otherwise would have nowhere else to go.
As a society we must rethink the importance of these institutions and how much effort we need to put into them for all our sakes...
The night we took him to the casualty was a regular rush night. 3-4 patients per bed. They saw his condition and started working immediately. But there was only one stretcher and only 2 nurses. All rushing around. He was then admitted to the Trauma ICU. The first 48 odd hours were hell for all of us - total mental and physical exhaustion.
He was in the Trauma ICU for 11 days. Then another 6 in a ward. Thankfully his legs and hands were not broken. Only about 5 ribs and the collar bone. The real risk were the numerous internal injuries and the head injury.
We got him back home after a miraculous come back from the brink. The tireless efforts of the doctors and his instinct to live pulled him back. He now has a long slow recovery ahead of him.
Government hospitals are an experience you will not easily forget. They cater to terrific loads with minimal staff. The poorest of the poor are not turned away here. I routinely saw doctors doing 24hr duty. These are the ones learning in the attached collage. Nowhere else can you get this kind of experience. Despite the multitudes of dogs, cats and heans staying on the premisis, despite every corner being used as a spitting zone, despite the mosquitoes and the dirt, despite the stinking and overflowing toilets - despite all this people do get cured. People who otherwise would have nowhere else to go.
As a society we must rethink the importance of these institutions and how much effort we need to put into them for all our sakes...
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