In my reckoning, a superpower would ensure that all its people lead a decent life that derives benefit from the state of the art technology which ensures optimum use of resources. Consequently, having even a single citizen bereft of the essentials of life or being denied essential services like health care or financial assistance would be tantamount to blasphemy. In other words, the country must indeed be the proverbial 'land of milk and honey' where each and every citizen feels secure and wanted!
It's against this backdrop that the story of the travails of a newborn baby girl brings about anguish and revulsion. The place of occurrence is Guna in Madhya Pradesh. Earlier, the child's mother, who was going through birth pangs, had approached the local government hospital for delivery only to be thwarted by the staff under the pretext that there were no doctors available. They didn't even have the courtesy to provide her with an ambulance for transportation to any of the nearby hospitals for immediate medical management because of the simple and stark fact that she was very, very poor!
The poor lady, then, gave birth to baby 'Gudiya' out in the open, within the premises of the hospital. Exhausted by the ordeal, she was in a semi conscious state when a pig tried to drag away the child and in the process, the little one had sustained injuries. She was saved in time by an alert villager who happened to pass by at that point of time. The subsequent reactions from the concerned authorities are pathetic and disgusting.
This has come out in the open thanks to an alert media but what about the many that go unnoticed by the print or the visual media? This happens only in India!
And when numerous such unacceptable conditions exist, isn't our aspiring to be a superpower a big joke? I, as an Indian citizen, am ashamed!!
It's against this backdrop that the story of the travails of a newborn baby girl brings about anguish and revulsion. The place of occurrence is Guna in Madhya Pradesh. Earlier, the child's mother, who was going through birth pangs, had approached the local government hospital for delivery only to be thwarted by the staff under the pretext that there were no doctors available. They didn't even have the courtesy to provide her with an ambulance for transportation to any of the nearby hospitals for immediate medical management because of the simple and stark fact that she was very, very poor!
The poor lady, then, gave birth to baby 'Gudiya' out in the open, within the premises of the hospital. Exhausted by the ordeal, she was in a semi conscious state when a pig tried to drag away the child and in the process, the little one had sustained injuries. She was saved in time by an alert villager who happened to pass by at that point of time. The subsequent reactions from the concerned authorities are pathetic and disgusting.
This has come out in the open thanks to an alert media but what about the many that go unnoticed by the print or the visual media? This happens only in India!
And when numerous such unacceptable conditions exist, isn't our aspiring to be a superpower a big joke? I, as an Indian citizen, am ashamed!!
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