Can we trust our healthcare system?

 Battling the horrid situation of Covid with a baby growing inside of her, she succumbed to the struggles on Saturday morning at 7. The reason - NO BEDS WITH VENT AVAILABLE.

She lost her father on a Friday morning as he was down with Covid.

The incident I am about to share is a true one. i didn't know the girl directly but my husband did. What happened with her can happen to anyone out there struggling, given the sudden rise in the cases.

When the doctor first asked to admit her, her husband hunted for hospitals but couldn't find a bed for her. He finally found a bed available at a private hospital (Chinchwad). She struggled as her oxygen levels kept saturating. After observing her for one whole day they advised the husband to find a hospital that would get her admitted as she required to be given treatment for Covid post delivering the baby. They said they did not have a bed with vent available. She struggled throughout the day. We contacted as many people as we knew to get a bed for her, but every place we called, the answer was the same. By dusk, as her husband spoke to the doctor, they realised they were related. The doctor apologised for not finding her a bed and stated that he would now give her the treatment that should be given to a relative. I don't how, perhaps only a miracle that they could find a bed with vent when there was none available! She delivered the baby, but sadly couldn't pull through.

We see people at religious gatherings and political rallies being so reckless, while there are people dying and not being given the right treatment. Medications being smuggled, beds being reserved for the VIPs and what not! Has human life deteriorated to being nothing in our country? Sadly, we live in a country where cows are safer than humans, where a surname and faith decides your patriotism and where women still need to pass virginity test to prove they are worthy brides.  We have politicians who enforce curfews and then run huge rallies. People with money and power who trade the lives of the poor for wealth without any conscience. 

In a time where we need to rely on our healthcare system, we are actually being hunted down by it. I'm sure there are many on the frontline who are selflessly dedicated to serving people and give their best. At the same time, there are predators out there who ruin their efforts; all for what? Simply money. 

I am literally shaken by the inhumane healthcare system and the gambles being played by the bigshots. Hoping all of this comes to an end soon.

If any one of you are seeking help or have faced similar incidents, please bring it to light. Trying to stand against the wrong is a way of staying right.

WHO YOU ARE

You are fragile yet strong,

You know that there's nothing you can't take on.

You alone can love in the true sense,

Selfless and without an end.

You are a dove yet you can be

A lioness when you need to be.

You are the fire, the passion and the storm;

You are the comfort, the quiet and the embrace the soul yearns.

The only flaw in you is that,

You know not your worth and succumb to what's not right.

Rise up you brave one and keep soaring high,

Don't put up with lies and evil and all the sly.

Know that you are not the one who relies 

But your entire world on you sets their eyes.

Look in the mirror and reflect,

Upon who you are and what you have become. 

Pick up opportunities coming your way

And pick up the another whom people slay.

Let your charisma and your beauty

Be not defined by the words devastating;

Know that you are much more than what you wear or how you look

You are a survivor and survival for many,

You are the feeder and the courage to keep moving.

In all of this don't you forget,

That part of you which deserves self care.

Live your dreams and build your world

Do you what you want to and never doubt your worth!