Personal Dairy

 This is one of my personal account regarding a recent incident which made a development in my day today happenings. 

I wanted to register my mother's name in government records as a physically disabled person who lost her legs to diabetes recently. The procedure was simple which required me to register her details in government hosted website https://www.swavlambancard.gov.in/ After registering the details we are required to visit the allocated government hospital for getting the time slot for verification by a government doctor in order to enumerate the applicant in the government records.

In my case it was KC general government hospital at Malleswaram. We reached the hospital at the allocated time slot and were waiting for our turn amongst a slew of other applicants who wanted to get themselves enumerated.  

Opposite to our department was blood bank department. And there were a couple of patients who reached out to the blood bank for blood availability required for blood transfusion for their beloved admitted in the hospital. Concerned workers turned down the request citing some reasons. This made the patients to contact their doctors updating them about the status. And doctors had to walk down to the blood bank to convince the workers about the urgency of the occasion but to no avail.

It is imperative for us to avail the services of private hospital as we do not wish to take risk when it comes to health of the our beloved ones and we are ready to spend lakhs no matter how it may affect our financial terms. And this mentality funds the growth of private sector hospitals. But is it true that in this country only private hospitals provides the best care for their patients? The reality may not be so. And the best example is AIIMS chain of hospitals funded by the government providing health services on par with any other privately run hospitals attracting patients even from neighborhood countries who visit them in order to avail latest procedures in medical field.

So the question is why is that the standards maintained by these premiere run government funded organization missing in the local taluk hospitals. Is it merely due to lack of funding? The answer once again is a big no.  

The same situation extends to government run educational institutions wherein we see government run IITs and NITs providing world class education but the standards drastically get reduced when it comes to public schools run by the same government setup.

Meanwhile I got my mother verified by the government doctor and waiting for the update regarding status of the application through an online portal.