Helpless patients
Photo: Wahid Adnan / Driknews
It is a matter of great regret that even after many news reports in several dailies and telecasting in various satellite channels regarding the ordeals and sufferings of helpless patients in hospitals, especially in city areas, impoverished people are still facing the same misconducts of a group of hospital employees and the influence of brokers hanging and lurking around the hospitals. Most of the government hospitals in city areas have been under the control of a good number of brokers, who are one of the major reasons behind the plight of patients. For instance--a few weeks back a watchman from our building went to a hospital in the city for treatment since he was suffering from TB, lever disease and bronchitis. He went to see some doctors hoping to be treated well in that hospital, but his all hopes had been shattered when he experienced the horrible ordeal on that day. After he had arrived at the hospital when he tried to communicate with the hospital authorities concerned, he was intercepted all the way by a group of brokers and told to wait. He started waiting and found those people who told him to wait were whispering with each other. A few hours later one man came to him and heard about the diseases from the watchman. Afterwards he (victim) was given the promise by that broker to make the provision to help him get proper treatment. Then it was nothing but just waiting as the poor helpless watchman was under the process of being swindled. At the eleventh hour he had been briefed as to how he (broker) was going to get the treatment done through undergoing a cheap surgery by the very next week on the rooftop under the open sky of that hospital, when the doctor would be available. Listening to the broker exhausted feeble poor watchman came back home with a distraught face at the end of the day. He was sobbing during telling this awful tale of swindlers some days before his death. However, I would earnestly request the authorities concerned to intervene and make things better.
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