Penumonia.

My youngest son is down with pneumonia. He is in hospital inhaling oxygen and imbibing saline. He doesn't seem to be suffering except when pierced with needles.
He is the first one in family to spend a night at hospital. It seems he contracted this from his bro. Hopefully he will be alright by tomorrow morning.
It's sad to see small children suffering. Hospitals in India need lot of improvement. Ofcourse it's about money. If we had money, we will have better hospitals.
Recent rains and deteriotion of public health standards only increase the burden on poor health infrastructure of this country.
I wonder how many kids in India can afford costly medicines, overnight stay at hospital,...
Many parents still go for some genric medicine and still worse some alternative medicine.
How can we expect tribal kids to get decent access to medical care?
Something needs to be done and done fast. Just because we have too many people around us doesn't mean, we should be fatalist in our attitude.
One important thing that's missing from shining India is lack of growth in civil infrastructure. Nobody cares about parks, libraries, hospitals, schools, colleges...
It's only about IT, commercial education, Real estate, new vehicles, more entertainment,...
Even Govts these days talk about recovering their investment on health and education. We see more and more self funded courses in Govt uniersities and users charges at Govt hospitals and sale of vacant lands to Real estate developers. When govt acts like a corporate body, there is little hope for public. I know , I know the usual arguements about utilising all these proceeds towards public welfare.
Why rob people first and then donate to them? If govt cannot afford to increase investments in health and education why is it collecting taxes? Customs, Central Excise, Education Surcharge, Gulf war surcharge, Cess for national highway building, ...what not?
Apart from all these we are supposed to contribute to PM relief fund, CM relief fund..If you think about it, my donation job is over the moment I pay my taxes.
We should all act. Either we should force govt to utilise our contributions in a transperent and positive manner or we should start evading taxes and behave like local Robin Hood'.
I prefer the second route.