A bad tummy has kept me home for 2 days and living on electral and tablets. I live at Hastings which is considered an upmarket area in Kolkata so I headed out to the local doctor. The local doctor has this small dispensary next to a medical store here. I was waiting in line with about 10 - 12 women and a couple of army guys. The dispensary was dark and small with a doctor who seemed to know what he was talking about.
This is the situation in Kolkata, one of the metros of India so you can imagine the situation in smaller towns. The last time I had fallen ill in Kalka, on the way to Shimla I was attended to by a doctor who was not an MBBS. Even then I felt that the medical care facilities in India really need to improve. I don't think it's a lack of Doctors. It's just that they are not available at the right place.
One more problem I noticed was the chemists not selling tablets as per requirements especially for the expensive tablets and tablets I must tell you are very expensive. My tablets cost me all of 250 bucks for 3 days. that would be a large chunk of salary for a lot of people.
As a kid I had a dream of an India complete in every aspect. Haven't done much to change it yet. But if me living in a city doesn't have access to medical facilities, a lot of India would be at the mercy of quacks who are taking advantage of poor hapless people.
One thing we guys can do is probably contribute unused unexpired medicines to medicine banks available at many chemists. I know local chemists in Mumbai had it. What would anyway have been thrown out can help somebody.
Let's do our bit. Remember every drop can catalyse a wave.
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