The Hospital
This is a hospital.Where men sit waiting, not on the benches but on each other's feet.This is a hospital.Where the sick don't find a place to sit, as all the seats are broken or taken.This is a hospital.Where doctors are two hours late, and that's considered "OK."This is a hospital.Where patients with the slightest display of "Do you know who I am?" are given first preference.This is a hospital.Where children lay scattered on the floor, sleeping or weeping, while their mothers console them with empty promises.This is a hospital.Where people sidestep the children and move on, without looking down at the pain of the innocents.This is a hospital.Where a tired and hungry child cries for milk.This is a hospital.Where the famished mouth presses gratefully and suckles happily on it's mother's life-giving teat.This is a hospital.Where a young man wearing a suit and tie chances glances at the supple breast of the young mother, leering at the sight.This is a hospital.Where the suit-and-tie man cares nothing about the patients or sickness, but on imaginary sales figures that promises to convert into money, but always wants just a little bit more.This is a hospital.Where Medical Representatives don't need to take appointments or talk to anyone, but patients are thrown out forcibly right through the door.This is a hospital.Where words like 'ethics' and 'morals' and 'duties' are nothing more than words plastered on placards, or painted on white walls turning grey, fading slowly to nothingness over time.This is a hospital.Which has been left at the hands of competent doctors and incompetent administrators, as nobody wants to do the societal clean up.This is a hospital.Which has seen so many sharp minds get lured away by that financial temptress.This is not just a hospital.It is a chilling representation of what our world has become.Where selfish people look outside their comfortable sedans, tut-tut twice at the deplorable conditions, then roll up their windows and get lost in that momentary glitter that they have mistaken to be real life.This is real life.
