THIS IS PAKISTAN! WHO CARES!
(Hafiz Muhammad Noman, Karachi)
That was a very shocking and worse day for the British Prime Minister David
Cameron and Nick Clegg. They were happy to meet a patient as various media were
capturing their pictures and videos and they wanted to show off themselves!
Perhaps it all happened quite well but unfortunately, a senior orthopedic
surgeon entered the ward where the whole situation was abruptly changed. Mr.
Cameron and his colleague were taken aback when the doctor ordered them to leave
the ward! Why did this incident take place?! Shouldn’t the doctor have kept
quiet in honor of his Prime minister?!
Last month, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani visited Jinnah Hospital
Karachi. His aim was to inaugurate a new emergency department that had already
started working! What happened in Jinnah hospital was very shocking for the
nation! As Mr. Gilani reached the hospital, patients were taken out of the new
emergency department and shifted them to some rooms quite at the tail of the
hospital that were in bad condition! The entrance of new patients and their
relatives were limited to their wards. None was allowed to enter or exit the
hospital! Medical stores and shops were forced to close! This all happened in
Jinnah hospital that is considered to be the best hospital where good doctors
and machineries are found!
Now compare both of the incidents! In Britain, the surgeon was not afraid of Mr.
Cameron as he was on his duty and he followed or abode by the law or rules and
regulations! Mr. Cameron and Clegg were not properly dressed as the wards need
to be neat and clean and to be saved from diseases! The surgeon took care of
various patients at various wards and the natural environment! Think! Could the
same incident take place in Pakistan with Mr. Gilani? First of all, none could
dare to say a bit of word opposite Mr. Gilani as they knew that either they
along with their families would be in a fix or they would be transferred! Either
they would be terminated from their jobs or an inquiry committee would be formed
against them!
It is a great pity that there is no abiding of laws in Pakistan! If someone is
dying here, no one asks and lets them die! Not only let them die but kill them
so that population will decrease! This is Pakistan where every thing is
possible! Sometimes infants are born in rickshaws due to ministers or sometimes
patients die as the traffic is jammed because of the ministers’ traveling!
Sometimes our own defenders kill us and sometimes people kill innocent men
openly and our defenders are watching the whole scene or program quietly! This
is Pakistan! WHO CARES!