Ok, first of all let me clarify myself. Previously I had given a number of updates regarding paucity of humanity in present scenario.. On the contrary, today I am going to describe something different, something soothing to the heart..
That day there was an accident which happened around 100 kms away from my hospital. Several persons were injured including women and children. Some were treated at a local hospital, some were referred to Guwahati. Being a tertiary care hospital, around 30 patients were brought to our institute. Among those patients, there was one baby who was only 2 yrs old. The baby was accompanied by two young boys of around 23 and 25 years. Our doctors and hospital staffs were quite busy handling the emergency situation. The preliminary stage of the patients' immediate management was over and after that the stage of investigation started. One junior brought to my notice that the baby is actually unknown.
"Unknown? What do you mean? There are two attendants with the baby!!!"
"Yes Partha da, there are 2 boys with the baby, but they don't know who the baby is!!"
I was really surprised. I met those boys. Yeah, my junior was right....
"We were there at the accident spot sir. When the patients were being shifted, we came to know that the baby didn't have any conscious guardian.. And don't know why, but our inner self didn't allow us to leave the Injured baby and we reached here....."
The baby just met an accident and at that moment his clothes were having blood stains here and there, I mean his appearance was not that of a cute baby that most of us would like to lift and kiss his cheeks, but he was taken care of by two young boys who didn't know anything about him. Being human, we would have definitely cared about the baby, but the bitter truth is that most of us would avoid lifting such an unknown baby... Don't take me wrong, but I have personally met people who denied to carry an injured person citing the reason that it might make their vehicle dirty or blah blah, leave aside the thought of spending their precious time and money!! But the boys were least concerned about anything else and only cared about the well being of the child.
After an hour or such, the investigation reports were available and the baby was found to be out of danger, indeed he could be discharged, but due to unavailability of any known attendant, it was decided to keep the baby in the hospital.
At around 8.45 pm and after delivering their relentless service to the baby for around 3 hrs, the boys approached me..
"Sir, the baby is stable now and we will have to leave. What to do?"
I called the accompanying police officer and he immediately managed one lady constable to take care of the baby. However the boys didn't leave the hospital immediately, but waited till the baby was shifted from the emergency department to the respective ward.
You know, I truly wanted to thank the boys, but restrained myself from doing so thinking that it would probably underestimate their good will. But I wanted to encourage them to continue their good work. Thus, I didn't thank them, but let them know that amidst all those chaos, I just encountered a beautiful experience and I realised it for sure.. Yes, that's called humanity!!!
That day there was an accident which happened around 100 kms away from my hospital. Several persons were injured including women and children. Some were treated at a local hospital, some were referred to Guwahati. Being a tertiary care hospital, around 30 patients were brought to our institute. Among those patients, there was one baby who was only 2 yrs old. The baby was accompanied by two young boys of around 23 and 25 years. Our doctors and hospital staffs were quite busy handling the emergency situation. The preliminary stage of the patients' immediate management was over and after that the stage of investigation started. One junior brought to my notice that the baby is actually unknown.
"Unknown? What do you mean? There are two attendants with the baby!!!"
"Yes Partha da, there are 2 boys with the baby, but they don't know who the baby is!!"
I was really surprised. I met those boys. Yeah, my junior was right....
"We were there at the accident spot sir. When the patients were being shifted, we came to know that the baby didn't have any conscious guardian.. And don't know why, but our inner self didn't allow us to leave the Injured baby and we reached here....."
The baby just met an accident and at that moment his clothes were having blood stains here and there, I mean his appearance was not that of a cute baby that most of us would like to lift and kiss his cheeks, but he was taken care of by two young boys who didn't know anything about him. Being human, we would have definitely cared about the baby, but the bitter truth is that most of us would avoid lifting such an unknown baby... Don't take me wrong, but I have personally met people who denied to carry an injured person citing the reason that it might make their vehicle dirty or blah blah, leave aside the thought of spending their precious time and money!! But the boys were least concerned about anything else and only cared about the well being of the child.
After an hour or such, the investigation reports were available and the baby was found to be out of danger, indeed he could be discharged, but due to unavailability of any known attendant, it was decided to keep the baby in the hospital.
At around 8.45 pm and after delivering their relentless service to the baby for around 3 hrs, the boys approached me..
"Sir, the baby is stable now and we will have to leave. What to do?"
I called the accompanying police officer and he immediately managed one lady constable to take care of the baby. However the boys didn't leave the hospital immediately, but waited till the baby was shifted from the emergency department to the respective ward.
You know, I truly wanted to thank the boys, but restrained myself from doing so thinking that it would probably underestimate their good will. But I wanted to encourage them to continue their good work. Thus, I didn't thank them, but let them know that amidst all those chaos, I just encountered a beautiful experience and I realised it for sure.. Yes, that's called humanity!!!
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