Nobody likes visiting hospitals and I am no exception either. Touchwood I had enjoyed a good health in my life and which means I didn’t visited hospitals many times, but past month I have been placing many a visits to hospitals courtesy, my ailing super aged grandmother.
All her medical test reports confirms that she is absolutely fine for her age & yet she has been acting like she is about to die any second. Now since I had absolutely nothing to do while being in hospital, I inquisitively started noticing people (read patients)
Situation was particularly grim in AIIMS new emergency ward. It occurred to me that in a 40 bed cabin styled ward, more than 200 patients were being look after. More than 90% of them were battling for their respective lives, but what baffled me greatly was 10% of remaining so called casualty patients (read viral fever) & some police case in which policemen instead of going through routing OPD landed up straight in Emergency ward, so as to get the process done within a few hours. What’s more ironical was a message board which read “in case a bed is not available in emergency ward, the patient will not be admitted ad after initial treatment would be referred to another hospital.
Meanwhile we shifted grandma, from AIIMS to a private hospital in vicinity of our Gurgaon home. Money can really change the equations; however sitting in a hospital alongside a patient can be really depressing. How about a law which would put a tax on number of accompanying person a patient can have. Surely it would help in decongestion of our hospitals. We can also put a Cap limit on the number of times a person can be admitted in hospital in a year. Any takers?????????????
