I just heard that the honourable minister for health in our government of West Bengal has been boasting that our government hospitals routinely accommodate three patients to a bed, besides dozens lying on the floor, so great is the demand for their services - which, according to the minister, only goes to show how wonderful the state health service must be.
I suppose it takes a minister in India to be that blase and shameless. I put this in the humour blog because if I don't laugh, it can only make me cry!
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Heaven help us. And they get away with such utter levels of shamelessness and imbecility too. No, don't cry. You won't have any tears left.
There was one horrific piece of news that came out some/many years ago, remember when a mental asylum in Tamil Nadu caught fire? The authorities came up with something equally outstanding that time around...
But I'll tell you something funny that might make you to grin a little. I was getting these eye infections last year, and when I went to the health centre, the doc' asked I "so what do you think it is?" There I was with one eye swollen up, and she was asking me what I thought it was. I said, "I think it's a sty. It looks like a sty. It comes and goes. But this time it's been around for close to a week." She peered into my face and asked me, "So you think it's a pink eye?" I had never heard of that before. "No, not a pink eye." I replied. "A sty. A sty." I was rolling my eyes thanking the heavens that she hadn't said, "So you think it's a pig sty?" I realised some seconds later that it was conjunctivitis that she meant with her "pink eye". And that didn't make me feel any better. Anyone with some level of functioning eyesight would have known that it wasn't conjunctivitis.
Another friend has a chronic liver condition, and so he went for a check-up when the doc' asked him to repeat what his condition was called. So my friend did, after which the doc' said "Hmm...haven't heard of that before..." and right in front of my friend, the doc' proceeded to do an msn search to find out what that condition was all about. An msn search, can you imagine? Some of us later joked that the doc should have at least made an exit and checked on google, and in the next room.
And last but not the least: Mrs.D needed to get a benign breast tumour removed. It's the day of the op. She's being wheeled into surgery. Two minutes later the doc comes out and calls her husband, Mr.D into the room. The doc has his black marker in his hand and he then looks at Mrs. D and then back to Mr.D, and then with the marker hovering over Mrs. D's supine body, the doc says, "Mr.D, this is the spot where the tumour is, right?"
The bizarre thing is that Mrs. D recovered without too many problems but I really do wonder how she managed to go through with the op. or what her poor husband was doing waiting in the waiting room.
To the best of my knowledge the second and the third tale are true.
Anyway, I just got lost in some related tales (because I didn't want to relate the Tamil Nadu tale, which would have been the most appropriate). Sorry about the rather disjointed comment (there is some sort of a rambling connection though).
Take care,
Shilpi
Ha! While three people to a bed might have had the minister shift about uncomfortably before, the de-criminalisation of gay and lesbian sexual practises might be like manna from heaven for him.....if he can't do much to cure their ills, at least lets see them off with an orgy and he would'nt have to worry about who with....wonder if they're given an option - Would you like 3 to a bed or a dozen on the floor ?......Thank God for small mercies......Bev (somewhat tongue in cheek).
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