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From: Moderator BharatUdayMission <moder...@gmail.com>
Date: May 12, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: Good Work!
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Thank you.... Thank you God for giving me my family.... Thank you for
giving me friends.. Thank you for moulding my life such that i have
people who care for me.
Friends,
Yesterday started out as another ordirinary day, our plans were going as planned. We left for the hospital after noon to get some pictures in order to finalize our presentation. What happened next changed my outlook on life. Hearing and knowing is a lot lot different from seeing things first hand. After we were nearly done with our work, we headed out towards the patients attendants waiting area (a series of garages with the shutters open.. with absolutely no furniture in there except the dirty stone floor. Guess as the hospital has no ambulances, this is the best way the authorities found to utilize this structure ) there we saw a man, an old man, lying half delirious, lying in what was his own excreta, lying in pain and agony, mumbling... not having the energy to even cry out.... lying barely 15 meters away from the main enterance to the hospital, lying in sight of the guards, yet... still lying there.
We immediately raised an alarm.. tried to get him admitted, it was an ordeal, even after we said we were from the press. It took us half an hour at least to get a stretcher (none are available, the casualty section has just 4.... and for every patient admitted in this section spends an average 1-2 hrs on it while his preliminart tests are done, if done at all)
We got him to the emergency section.... there we were told he was diabetic, had had an operation performed on him recently and had been discharged after that, in the state he was. Whats more is that he when had noticd something wrong had come to the hospital(5 days ago) but as some1 had robbed his money(Rs400) he couldn't get himself admitted.. he confessed that the guards had indeed kicked him out... refusing him admission everyday.... If he had been admitted 5 days back, He could have LIVED.
Right now he has gangerene in his leg... which is very severe. He cannot be operated as he can't stand the opoeration without anesthesia... nor can he stand the anesthesia..... thought 5 days back, it would have been different. We tried our best, got him admitted, had some scans done, but the diagnosis held. We were told to shift him to an old age home as that was the only way he could spend the last few months of his life in peace. We were told to arrange for his to be shifted by (am the next day.. else he would have to be thrown out again. We immediately tried to locate some old age homes...(thank you Tejaswi and Sriram.... your immediate support is really appreciated) we planned to shift him to an old age home at Kukatpally today.. BUT.. yes there is a but.
Today morning we were told that the person was discharged in the night... the official version is that some1 came for him.. this after he told us he had no one. Here, my guess is as good as yours.. i suspect he was thrown in some old gutter.... thrown as the authorities found him to be a burden.. a shame to their image... And te sad part is that there is nothign more we can do for the poor person... All that we can do.. and something that i ask all of you to do... is pray.
Yes, this incident changed my life.... I thank everyone there.... all who did their best to help him... help him while grippling with 'life' and its harsh realities. Thank you rakesh, Deepti, Harvinder, Niranjan and Tanvir.
All this made me realize the value of what we plan to do. No our aim in the OGH project is not to help one individual. its to change the system so that no one has to suffer like this. We have some plans, some plans which we will discus with all of you when its possible to do so. Till then i request all the members of BM to come, join this project and help these people. we haeva sanitation drive planned here on the 20-21st of this month... we need all of you to help out... and get all your freinds, relatives.... just about everyone you can get to help out too.
Yes, we all associated with this project BELIEVE we CAN make a difference. We can change things, the only thing we need is spirit, passion... and help.
Thank You,
Ali
Friends,
Yesterday started out as another ordirinary day, our plans were going as planned. We left for the hospital after noon to get some pictures in order to finalize our presentation. What happened next changed my outlook on life. Hearing and knowing is a lot lot different from seeing things first hand. After we were nearly done with our work, we headed out towards the patients attendants waiting area (a series of garages with the shutters open.. with absolutely no furniture in there except the dirty stone floor. Guess as the hospital has no ambulances, this is the best way the authorities found to utilize this structure ) there we saw a man, an old man, lying half delirious, lying in what was his own excreta, lying in pain and agony, mumbling... not having the energy to even cry out.... lying barely 15 meters away from the main enterance to the hospital, lying in sight of the guards, yet... still lying there.
We immediately raised an alarm.. tried to get him admitted, it was an ordeal, even after we said we were from the press. It took us half an hour at least to get a stretcher (none are available, the casualty section has just 4.... and for every patient admitted in this section spends an average 1-2 hrs on it while his preliminart tests are done, if done at all)
We got him to the emergency section.... there we were told he was diabetic, had had an operation performed on him recently and had been discharged after that, in the state he was. Whats more is that he when had noticd something wrong had come to the hospital(5 days ago) but as some1 had robbed his money(Rs400) he couldn't get himself admitted.. he confessed that the guards had indeed kicked him out... refusing him admission everyday.... If he had been admitted 5 days back, He could have LIVED.
Right now he has gangerene in his leg... which is very severe. He cannot be operated as he can't stand the opoeration without anesthesia... nor can he stand the anesthesia..... thought 5 days back, it would have been different. We tried our best, got him admitted, had some scans done, but the diagnosis held. We were told to shift him to an old age home as that was the only way he could spend the last few months of his life in peace. We were told to arrange for his to be shifted by (am the next day.. else he would have to be thrown out again. We immediately tried to locate some old age homes...(thank you Tejaswi and Sriram.... your immediate support is really appreciated) we planned to shift him to an old age home at Kukatpally today.. BUT.. yes there is a but.
Today morning we were told that the person was discharged in the night... the official version is that some1 came for him.. this after he told us he had no one. Here, my guess is as good as yours.. i suspect he was thrown in some old gutter.... thrown as the authorities found him to be a burden.. a shame to their image... And te sad part is that there is nothign more we can do for the poor person... All that we can do.. and something that i ask all of you to do... is pray.
Yes, this incident changed my life.... I thank everyone there.... all who did their best to help him... help him while grippling with 'life' and its harsh realities. Thank you rakesh, Deepti, Harvinder, Niranjan and Tanvir.
All this made me realize the value of what we plan to do. No our aim in the OGH project is not to help one individual. its to change the system so that no one has to suffer like this. We have some plans, some plans which we will discus with all of you when its possible to do so. Till then i request all the members of BM to come, join this project and help these people. we haeva sanitation drive planned here on the 20-21st of this month... we need all of you to help out... and get all your freinds, relatives.... just about everyone you can get to help out too.
Yes, we all associated with this project BELIEVE we CAN make a difference. We can change things, the only thing we need is spirit, passion... and help.
Thank You,
Ali
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"We have only one Passion
The Rise of a Great Nation."
www.bharatudaymission.org
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"We have only one Passion
The Rise of a Great Nation."
www.bharatudaymission.org
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