Shocking and blood-chilling news of mass caesarian has been reported from a Govt Taluk Hospital at Cherthala, Alappuzha of Kerala, Southern tip of India, known for cent percent literacy, on the 19th and 20th of April 2011. Caesarian on a mass scale, ,mind you almost 20 in two days all premature were performed with the lust for money and also to avail of leave on account of Easter holidays. Caesarians are conducted only in emergency cases but here the case is different. Those who are admitted to a govt hospital are generally from poor and lower middle-class families and they are usually at the whims and fancies of the hospital authorities. The surroundings are unhygienic but the ones admitted to the hospital have to suffer the consequences. The typical govt hospital of Kerala is without basic facilities and hence the patients are often compelled to occupy spaces on the floor even those with serious illness. If the doctor has to attend to a patient he/she has to be bribed otherwise the patients’ condition is bound to turn for the worse.
The victims of mass caesarian were forced to share single beds and the new borns are often kept on the floor. Imagine the plight of the poor, mothers and their new born babies in such a pathetic condition.
Doctors are to be bribed and they have no qualms in demanding their pound of flesh from poor man and woman, who are hailing from the lowest strata of society, mostly labourers and poverty, malnourishment and unemployment are their lot and their plight continues to be the same under different govts. As far as a politician is concerned these ones are vote-banks only. The hi-tech hospitals also resort to caesarian operations to extract money from those admitted there and that is an entirely different case.
In a State widely applauded for cent percent literacy female infanticide is the order of the day and the parents need not be blamed taking in view the plight of the girl children in the society. Hence a girl child is a nightmare to a couple at the lowest ladder of the society. The govt is least bothered over such pitiful conditions.
No wonder that in a hospital where mass caesarian are conducted within the stipulated period the cruel practice of female infanticide is a common thing.
Govt has ordered the Vigilance Commission to order an enquiry but would that help in putting an end to such practices for ever? The past instances are not that inspiring.
No comments:
Post a Comment