Shoba Srinivasan comments : Yet another article, for which I wish I knew how to read Urdu! A peek at life from your personal window...the questions which follow such tragedies...is saddening indeed...
Yes, 50 years is a long time. But, is it long enough for a nation(s) to break out of its shackles and face responsibility straight in its eye? On one end, one sees great "progress"...but on the other end we seem to have frozen on our tracks, or moved backwards in apathy, unable to cope...
I feel that our country(s) need to face and accept our own identities, strengths and skills. Many don't realise that the freedom-fighting generation is slowly disappearing, and the generation immediately after that is in the fore front now. Where are our brains & skills? We need them back in our own country(s) and not serving another soil...We can, in our own way make that drop of a difference if we made the effort. The bigger picture might look a mammoth task, but really, it is necessary for us to take that first step towards helping our nation(s) come out of inertia...
And just for the records, despite the latest developments, many health care environments in the "West" have appalling rates of failed services leading to deaths. They go on strikes too...disrupting what is meant to be life saving situations. It's in no way justifying what's happening in our own country(s), but just goes to show that there's degeneration in human values every where...Simplistic conclusion, but it's part of a bigger truth as we rush to meet deadlines and expectations of imported cultures and value system...
Thanks for this article Moizullah & thanks Sahar for the translation!
Best Regards, Shoba
Moizullah Tariq Malik comments : Shoba Jee: Thanks for your comments. One thing which i have noted that unlike doctors the medical support staff (nurses, etc.) has no carrier progression, if their services are recognised and they get their share and proper recognition, it could bring some positive change.
The concept of Intensive care units are different too. The ICU or ICCU was actually a hall where patients need utmost care watch others in terrible conditions or even dying..How they can get recovered??? .......my regards.....
Shoba Srinivasan comments : True Moizullahji...May be what we don't realise is that, health care system requires team effort in the recovery process of patients. As much attention is given to fine tuning a doctor's skills, the same diligence should be given to the support staff of nurses and other para medics. And a doctor's duty isn't over, the moment his/her services are administered...That is what I see lacking (as well)in many hospitals around the world.
In an ICU many patients are not even aware of their own self and surroundings. And the ICUs I have seen are very personal, isolated even-may be this concept is different in different countries...
