On the contrary, the guy with pancreatities came to Emergency of our unit the first thing in the morning. The Final year Post Grad posted there took him the normal way when Surgery guys refused to operate him; neither he nor his family opening his mouth to speak a word about all that drama they had been doing till they absconded with the file. Only when they reached the ward and my Co-Pg saw them was the whole thing known...Hes still there, got a Smart Card to get all treatment free from the Government.
Sometimes like this when you think people could have been really innocent and that somewhere some act of misunderstanding on your part or impatience on their part could have led to mismanagement or 'denial of health' as I had last put it, they come as scoundrelly as these...drink Alcohol, abuse their wives, get pancreatitis, abscond with files for 2 days, come back, get themselves admitted to the same unit to earn that hidden vote of sympathy, get a Smart Card that this unbelievable state has granted to every family who holds a BPL card ( whether they belong to it or no), and get Imipenem twice a day, free of charge.
And someone with Chronic Kidney Disease having three kids who he is the sole bread earner for...has no one to give him blood, no card to ensure free dialysis, each setting costing him 3 thousand bucks when he perhaps earns barely two thousand as a daily wager...finally denies dialysis and is carried off by his relatives to a not so distant death.
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