When admitted in a hospital.
It must be accepted that the people of India have not full faith in God. Even in hands of an expert doctor, they still pray before God that their relative, a family member or they themselves may come out of the hospital hale and healthy and fully treated. The people visiting them would not be encouraging them and they shall be telling those stories where the ill or the diseased people died because of wrong treatment or otherwise.
The period in hospital is full of tension, full of worries and pressures and instead of improving, there are chances that the ailing person may get more demoralization till he is in hospital. It would be better if we do not allow our relatives, others who want to see the ailing man or they have come as a customary visit and they must be kept out of the hospital. These people would not give encouragement to the ailing person, rather they shall be demoralizing the ailing person.
As far as we, the people of India are concerned, we are poor people and we know treatment has become very costly. Most of the expert doctors are not in government hospitals, but they have opened their own clinics and here charges are on the hire side and in government hospitals, most of the facilities are not available. That is also an additional tension and pressure on our mind. We are having an eye on the doctors and nurses attending our patient and when they are going out we run after them just to find out the latest position of the patient and his future. Each word of doctor shall be taken in mind and it can give us hope and pleasure and it can give us more tension. So as long as our patient is in hospital, we are not free and without pressure and if we ourselves are in hospital, then we are looking at the faces of doctors, at the faces of nurses and at the faces of our relatives attending us and if they have a smile, we too smile and if they are sad, we also go deep in sadness and frustration and we have, actually no hope that we shall survive. We know that in India we take the patient to the hospital only when we are not having any hope.
So these pressures, these tensions and these worries are but natural and we cannot avoid these worries and tensions and therefore, we should bear all this and take these things as a course of life. We shall have to develop a strong will to face all these contingencies of life because these are usual and customary in our life. We must be preparing ourselves for these contingencies of life and at least the people of India and people in other developing countries must be hard to face such types of contingencies in life.
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