Osmania General Hospital, one of the oldest hospitals of India, was built during the period of Mir Osman Ali Khan the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad. It was then declared Asia’s biggest hospital. But today the 103 year old hospital lack basic facilities. Patients are forced to sleep outside the wards due to shortage of beds.
Surprisingly the doctors of Osmania general hospital and other govt. hospitals have to say that if the government and concerned ministry and institutions do not show negligence, they can treat patients in a better way. A visit to the hospital revealed that dozens of patients lie outside the Osmania general hospital.
62-year-old Mohammed Ishaq, resident of Mahboob Nagar, is a labour by occupation. He approached the hospital after he was hit by a stone. Doctors plastered his leg and drove him outside the ward since there was no place inside the ward. The poor labour spent all the money he had, there is nothing left with him. Seeing his pathetic condition, the beggars are helping him by bringing food for him from the alms they collect.
The humanitarian gesture by the beggars is a lesson for doctors who take oath to serve people selflessly. Mohammed Ishaq told that these beggars are far better than the doctors who ill-treat their poor patients.
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