This weekend is more live-able. I am glad to finally have a little more space to breathe. Maybe, I'd slot in a bit of shopping or go watch that angsty movie, "Perth".
These few days, I am almost afraid to flip through those Forum pages in Straits Times. I am scared to find more articles published, describing 6hrs horror waits in A&E depts of public hospitals - paralysed fathers foaming at mouth while waiting for their hospital beds, brothers writhing in pain & risking complicated intestinal ruptures as they queued for their X-ray scans, sons & daughters anguished by the apparant lack of empathy & human compassion as senior docs forcibly encouraged 'an end to all that demeaning, needless suffering' by their elder members...
All these bring back hordes of depressing memories as I remember those terrible terrible times suffered by grandma, grandpa & mama in public hospitals... I'm also starting to fear for the future as papa, aunts & uncles start to really grow old and fall ill. I definitely wouldn't want any of my loved ones to be left forgotten in a miserable, cold corner, waiting for a disgusting stupid bed as he foam through his mouth, bleed through his ears and wait to breathe his last. Anyone deserves a more dignified death.
Train more nurses. Educate more doctors. Get only the truly commited to serve. Build bigger hospitals. Buy better equipment. Cut the crap and get to the action. Don't preach. Just do what you are here to do - SAVE LIVES. Don't tell us we had better let go, we make that decision ourselves. Meantime, please just go do what you ought to do, with a real and visible sense of urgency, compassion, and commitment. Don't just take the easy way out and apologize for long waits and 'inevitable' deaths.
Not easy to do? Well, nothing is easy on Earth. Period.
1 comment:
DUH???????
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