Abhi Subedi has written a play "अग्नी को कथा " translated, "A Story of Fire" that plays at Aarohan Theater. It is apparently inspired by the inferno borne of his students' ire that lit his library and Department of English into flames. ".....this got me thinking," he said, talking about how "A Story of Fire" came into being.
We were reminded of Professor Subedi's library and Department of English a few days ago. For us, it was shattered glasses that epitomized the pyre.
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Ours is a much distressing situation. A young woman in her very first pregnancy lost her life by the turn of events that probably took just a few seconds to start. She was having a Cesarean section to have her baby delivered. But she developed a rare reaction to the anesthetic agent. Who develops this rare reaction to this agent is unpredictable. Despite best efforts of the doctors involved, she died in a few days. It is chilling, how a young woman who might have been dreaming about holding her baby in her arms, maybe seeing the baby grow, maybe having more babies,....vanished along with her dreams. It is terrifying to imagine how the father, mother, husband, brother, sister of the woman might have felt learning that their daughter, wife, sister was there no more.
As soon as the reaction happened a huge commotion started in the hospital. My colleagues describe there being more than a hundred angry people in the corridors of the hospital. Police was called in. They came in trucks with sticks and guns. They camped out at ICU. The hospital was like a war zone. When she died a few days later, the ire burst out, with young men using their helmets to smash the glasses that caught their sight. Some of these glasses were just next to sick patients, the arm swung into air throwing out shards of glasses, the rage numbing the senses as to be oblivious to another being's distressful predicament. Police apparently intervened, a bit later according to my colleagues, charging these young men with boots and batons. Eighteen were arrested per the rumors.
1. What a distress
2. What a response
I can not reason out an unexplainable, unpredictable response to a medication that is used routinely. At the same time, I can not reason out the violence borne in the setting of this distress. The violence achieved nothing, perhaps more distress to those taken to the jail, beaten with batons, those working in terror at the hospital. Had we tried instead to talk out things, would that have helped? I don't know. Perhaps that is why Professor Subedi resorted to ".... this got me thinking" when flames engulfed his library and his department. I do not know.
We were reminded of Professor Subedi's library and Department of English a few days ago. For us, it was shattered glasses that epitomized the pyre.
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As soon as the reaction happened a huge commotion started in the hospital. My colleagues describe there being more than a hundred angry people in the corridors of the hospital. Police was called in. They came in trucks with sticks and guns. They camped out at ICU. The hospital was like a war zone. When she died a few days later, the ire burst out, with young men using their helmets to smash the glasses that caught their sight. Some of these glasses were just next to sick patients, the arm swung into air throwing out shards of glasses, the rage numbing the senses as to be oblivious to another being's distressful predicament. Police apparently intervened, a bit later according to my colleagues, charging these young men with boots and batons. Eighteen were arrested per the rumors.
1. What a distress
2. What a response
I can not reason out an unexplainable, unpredictable response to a medication that is used routinely. At the same time, I can not reason out the violence borne in the setting of this distress. The violence achieved nothing, perhaps more distress to those taken to the jail, beaten with batons, those working in terror at the hospital. Had we tried instead to talk out things, would that have helped? I don't know. Perhaps that is why Professor Subedi resorted to ".... this got me thinking" when flames engulfed his library and his department. I do not know.
It was terrifying..
ReplyDeleteI think something we should know and most not forget is "POLITICS"... politics in hospital.
Most often when any accident happens in hospital, patient party don't become aggressive and burst-out at once.
Its the hospital staff, often involve in labor politics, working as mafias, who counsel and teach the patient party about ways- how they can take money from hospital by blaming for carelessness. then the situation becomes like this. hospitals too, prefer to give few lakh rupees and settle the matter.
May be those politician takes some part of the money that patient party gets from hospital.
I don't know how did this accident happened. but I have heard and closely experienced that such mafias are present in Patan hospital too.