Written By: Shaloo Tiwari | Updated : November 27, 2017 10:03 AM IST
All the medical advancements in India are of no use if the patients aren't able to reach the medical facilities on time. Based on the proximity of the hospital, panicked patients tend to call for an ambulance to help the patients reach the hospital on time. Adding on to the problems like the lack of infrastructure, expensive ambulance services, traffic system in the country are the VVIPs. The ones who have the responsibility of serving India on their shoulders become the biggest obstruction in this case. Yes! I am talking about the VVIP culture in India which is ruining the whole environment of providing, forget better, merely the available healthcare facilities to Indians.
While there are so many such incidents that have happened in the past, Indians don't seem to learn anything. Be it a traffic jam or a flight delay, situations don't seem to improve. It is the common people that have to pay the price. Recently, you must have seen a video of an angry doctor who was supposed to attend her brother's funeral blasted the Union minister of state for tourism Alphons Kannanthanam, that went viral. She shouted at him because the flights got delayed due to the VVIPs' arrival. It is not just her shouting, in the real sense, it is the country cry in pain while being crushed under the foot of the VVIP culture in our country. Here's the video:
WATCH:Angry passenger shouts at Union Minister KJ Alphons at Imphal Airport after flights were delayed due to VVIP arrival schedule #Manipurpic.twitter.com/0EWHjIA30n
ANI (@ANI) November 22, 2017
Adding to the agony, a tweet from Chitra Subramaniam is clearly explaining what's wrong with the country. Her tweet says, 'My brother passed away in an ambulance in Mumbai that was stopped in Worli for a VVIP to pass. Despite everyone we know and all the forces we could muster, the undemocratic VVIP rule killed my brother. 1/n #IndiaAgainstVVIPNetas' and the #IndiaAgainstVVIPNetas is trending since then. But what can a trending hashtag do if there is no real work happening regarding this issue?
My brother passed away in an ambulance in Mumbai that was stopped in Worli for a VVIP to pass. Despite everyone we know and all the forces we could muster, the undemocratic VVIP rule killed my brother. 1/n #IndiaAgainstVVIPNetas Chitra Subramaniam (@chitraSD) November 22, 2017
Is it too much to ask that a patient in dire need of treatment reaches the hospital on time? What do you think could be the real solution to this issue? Let us know in the comments section below.
