The Times They Are Changing

By on January 29, 2008 in Causes

This is in answer to the question: are things better in indian hospitals than they were 30 years ago..

I want to share an lesson I was given by a young doctor in the overcrowded safdarjung hospital a couple of years ago. Seeing the congested ward with two patients or more in a bed was a shock and I could not stop myself from commenting on the same.. A young doctor heard my words and asked me to hear him out. He told me that most of the patients that came to a hospital came when all else had failed. He added that many came after selling or mortgaging land and jewels. If they were turned away then probably they would never be able to come again…it was often the very last chance for the patient. He then simply added these words that I can never forget: "now ma’am look at the ward again, does it still look so bad!"

So the answer to the query on the state of hospitals acquires a different hue. One has to look at them within te reality that is India.

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About anouradha.bakshi

The descendent of an indentured labour and a freedom fighter's daughter, Anouradha Goburdhun Bakshi was born in Prague in 1952 and raised in the numerous cities where her diplomat father was posted. (Prague, Beijing, Paris, Rabat, Saigon, Ankara..).
At 16 she returned to India, where she completed her studies and obtained a masters In French. She qualified for the IAS examination but preferred to follow a different path.

Fluent in French she was Assistant professor in Jawaharlal Nehru university for a few years. After marriage in 1974 to a young executive, she pursued a career as an interpreter and conference manager working for the likes of Indira Gandhi, Jacques Chirac, and many others.

The loss of her parents and the last words of her father "Don't lose faith in India' made her question the validity of an almost perfect life in an India were things were wrong. After a period of retrospection and the realisation that many 'why's needed to be answered she decided to find some of the answers by setting up project why in 1998.





 

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