Today morning while I was on my way to GMCH, I witnessed a post-accident scene in front of GMCH auditorium.. 2 bikes were lying on the main road with some broken parts scattered around and a crowd of 15 to 20 people were surrounding a semiconscious person. I didn't know anything about the happenings!! I stopped my car and on seeing that person, I asked the crowd to help me shift him to GMCH. Within minutes I was in my car with the injured person alone!! At last on my persuasion, one person from the crowd, a relative of the injured, came forward to accompany me. After the emergency duty doctors started their work up on the patient, I left for my own duty.
What I'm trying to say is.. around 15 to 20 people were there, but nobody cared to shift the patient to GMCH emergency, which was hardly 300 metres away from the site.
While I came forward to help that person, most of them acted promptly to shift him from the road into my car and then happily ended their job just by closing all the doors of the car, but nobody was willing to accompany..
A no. of cars were passing by the road, but nobody bothered to stop even to enquire. Only one car with a doctors' tag stopped, from which one young girl, may be a junior doctor from our college whom I didn't recognize, came out for help.
We always talk about humanity when we need it.. But when others need it, we almost always become too busy to help!!
Not because I'm a doctor, but because I'm a human being, it was my duty of the moment, duty of everyone present there to help that person.
I'm telling all these to express my agony.. But another important point is.. quite often it is seen that a person who comes forward to help these needy gets harassment of the authority and the police for no reason!!! So whom to blame? But yet still it is also true that if you need excuses, there are plenty.. Even people get excuses for murder and all other crimes!!
Humanity doesn't cost anything.. All it needs is a helping hand, nothing else !! and when there is a will, there is a way !!
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