Sir,
From our school days we have been taught that if a person is in his/her pink of health then he/she is really wealthy. Unfortunately for some people despite their school education ,have failed to understand the true essence of the message that ‘Health is Wealth’. Ironically they have taken this message literally, for them health is all about making wealth at the cost of their fellow beings ignorance or innocence. These beings that pretend to be God-fearing, donate large amount of money as charity and appear as pious people to us are in fact affected with vanity and hypocrisy.
These people who are in abundant, have also nibbled our District Medical Administration. Playing with the health of the helpless and poor has become an art for minting money for them. Let’s take an example: an ignorant patient goes to the District Hospital for treatment for a minor fracture, he expects the treatment to be free of cost but lo this poor man is asked to buy the medical equipments from the medical shops outside the vicinity of the hospital. He spends INR 1,120 which he should have been free of cost facilitated by the hospital administration. One can imagine if our emotions and empathy are still at work, the kind of psychological and financial stress this man would have undergone and also if our maths is good enough the kind of money the doctors are minting by getting substandard medicines and medical equipments. Let’s enlighten our people by taking five people on average coming to the hospital everyday for treatment for minor fracture, each of them are coerced to spend INR 1,120 which will come to INR 1,47140 /month and yearly it would surge up to INR 17,64140. We are stupid enough to spend this much of amount which should have been absolutely free of cost, don’t forget the commission of the such doctors and the middlemen.
Shooting complaints to the higher authorities in this regard hardly brings any dividend.
Yours etc….
Zakir Hussain Sharah
Kargil