The other day I went to a small yet stylish looking private hospital located in the popular Route 5 of Vijayawada city. A severe pain in intestines led me to meet a renowned gastroenterologist who immediately prescribed me few tests. While Im paying the initial consultation fee of thousand rupees, two dim eyes of an attending nurse sitting somewhere in the corner of a huge entrance hall have hit me.
Not that she is beautiful or a pitiable face, but there lies something buried deep inside her.
After paying consultation fee, I came to know that the tests cost around six thousand rupees and there is a debit/credit card payment system available there. After paying everything, I made it to a special room allocated to me and started consuming some laxatives that cleans up our stomach.
The nurse I noticed downstairs has taken three floors by steps and reached the room. I still find the same sorrow buried looks on her eyes.
I asked her, Do you need any money?
No Sir, she replied.
Then why are you gazing at me all the time
I want to tell you something sir..
The 50 year old lady took my hand into her palm and said Sir, you are ready to pay whatever they asked you. But that is not the case of poor people.
Off course, that is a stark reality.
Only after YSR came to power, costly medicine and surgeries are available to common man. Even a rickshaw puller came to this hospital only because of him and his Arogyasri, she continued.
The very thought of a nurse talking to me on a political thread irritated me, but still I understood the need to understand the pulse of such lower middle class and poor people. Myself being a middle class, I can feel how everyone thinks when things happen by 100 rupees notes.
Only if Jagan comes to power again, Im hoping that the situation of poor and middle class will improve. Without affording green notes, we will get medical facilities, she concluded, before saying I just thought of telling this to you.
Struck with her words, Im still trying to recollect what is happening with Arogyasri and else, but before that I moved to testing lab and anaesthesia shot slipped me into unconscious. The very next day I got discharged but cant find that nurse anywhere.
Once again my friend who dropped me in his car at the hospital came to pick me up. I noticed a big yellow sticker on the left corner of his Ford Fiesta. A round cut sticker with yellow background imprinted with a Telugudesam party logo on that. Now, I understood why that Nurse said those words to me. Maybe I should start thinking about her words seriously.
- lokeshnaidu@live.com
Not that she is beautiful or a pitiable face, but there lies something buried deep inside her.
After paying consultation fee, I came to know that the tests cost around six thousand rupees and there is a debit/credit card payment system available there. After paying everything, I made it to a special room allocated to me and started consuming some laxatives that cleans up our stomach.
The nurse I noticed downstairs has taken three floors by steps and reached the room. I still find the same sorrow buried looks on her eyes.
I asked her, Do you need any money?
No Sir, she replied.
Then why are you gazing at me all the time
I want to tell you something sir..
The 50 year old lady took my hand into her palm and said Sir, you are ready to pay whatever they asked you. But that is not the case of poor people.
Off course, that is a stark reality.
Only after YSR came to power, costly medicine and surgeries are available to common man. Even a rickshaw puller came to this hospital only because of him and his Arogyasri, she continued.
The very thought of a nurse talking to me on a political thread irritated me, but still I understood the need to understand the pulse of such lower middle class and poor people. Myself being a middle class, I can feel how everyone thinks when things happen by 100 rupees notes.
Only if Jagan comes to power again, Im hoping that the situation of poor and middle class will improve. Without affording green notes, we will get medical facilities, she concluded, before saying I just thought of telling this to you.
Struck with her words, Im still trying to recollect what is happening with Arogyasri and else, but before that I moved to testing lab and anaesthesia shot slipped me into unconscious. The very next day I got discharged but cant find that nurse anywhere.
Once again my friend who dropped me in his car at the hospital came to pick me up. I noticed a big yellow sticker on the left corner of his Ford Fiesta. A round cut sticker with yellow background imprinted with a Telugudesam party logo on that. Now, I understood why that Nurse said those words to me. Maybe I should start thinking about her words seriously.
- lokeshnaidu@live.com