10 December 2011

AMRI

AMRI is trending on the top on twitter right now...For a reason...
Because it happened today yet again...Just another fire at another hospital...The same story all over again...No proper Fire equipment...No safety door...No fire Alarm...No site map for the Fire Men to start rescue... No Nothing...
Even most of the hospital staff ran away from the spot as soon as the fire broke out...Leaving the Fire Brigade with a tough task of managing to enter the hospital with no site map...And with most of the floor doors locked...Patients were helped out with the help of ropes because most of the stairs were locked...The windows could not be opened(Locked again)...Leaving the only way of smashing through the windows...This is the level of Callousness that could possibly occur..
If this was US it would have been the end of the governor(the C.M. equivalent out here) ..But in the largest democracy Mamta Bannerjee came out with the announcement of compensation of 2 lakhs to the dead(Later increased to 4L)...A little less for the grievously injured....And the canceled license of the Hospital...And the suspension of a few Junior officers...The great Indian Buck Passing...
90+ dead in a matter of minutes...There only fault was being born in the largest democracy of the world where the hospital authorities can get any site map passed.Just any one until and unless a few wad of notes go with it.Safety inspectors on inspection do it by sitting in an A.C. room...Filling up a few forms and going with the usual "Hafta"...This wouldn't change...Torts would be filed in the courts...The decision would come when my children would be of the age i am now(I am 18)...
Uphaar Tragedy has already set the precedent for the cost of the normal Indian Life..7.5 -10 L...That is how it will be...
And for the record...It has slided down to #3 on twitter...Will be out till tomorrow...Like always people will forget...And it will be all left to just another case which had no result until most forget what it was in the first place...

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