The Serious Disease
The
chief of the hospital suggested to the people who were taking care of a
patient, “this patient has been discharged. He does not have any serious
disease. He just got sick of not having any food for a couple of days. That was
the main cause of his illness. Please get him out of the hospital; otherwise
other patient may not get bed due to high occupancy. If we cannot provide a bed
to the needy ones, it may cost them their lives from not getting the care on
time.”
“This patient does not have any relatives
or anyone responsible for him. Where should we take him? We brought him to the
hospital from the street where he was lying unconscious,” the people who were
taking care of that patient replied.
The chief of the hospital said, “You people
have to solve this problem at any cost. Our responsibility is to cure the
disease and we fulfilled that. But we don’t have any treatment for the poverty
which he is suffering from.” The chief of the hospital got angry but he
concealed his anger to show himself as calm and polite. The patient looked
confused. The patient was not sure what to do; be happy for getting cured from
the physical disease or be sad for the social disease from which he was
suffering.
Bishwa Raj Adhikari
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