Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Serious Disease-Fiction of the week-23


        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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