Humanity
"I am very much indebted to you,
Sir.. I feel as though the Almighty has come up in your form to
assist me at this juncture", Ram said with a bow to the doctor,
as Vani was watching in awe.
Vani was the chief nurse of that
private hospital, owned by Dr. Prakash. She assisted her husband in
his business.
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Ram's wife had been admitted to their
hospital five days back with mild labour pain. They had paid a
minimal advance of 20,000 rupees (around 300 USD), as a normal
delivery was anticipated. Due to sudden complications, the doctor
resorted to Caeserian delivery, which led to a shoot up of expenses,
with the expected expense now being more than 100,000 rupees (1,500 USD), which was an amount Ramesh could never afford at all, atleast
in near future. Hence, Ramesh came up to the doctor and conveyed his
inability to settle the hospital bills with tears in his eyes.
Ramesh was dumbfounded, as he heard Dr.
Prakash say, "Oh sir.. come on.. don't worry about money now.
You could settle the bills later, may be in installment. First, have
her discharged and take her home. We could discuss the bills later".
The first paragraph of this story was uttered by Ramesh to Dr. Prakash in reply to this.
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That night, as they lay on bed, Vani
cuddled Prakash, as she uttered in a slow voice, “Dear... I never
knew you were such a noble human. At times, I have thought you are
hard hearted, when you were very strict on bills. But today, my heart
melted as I saw you discharging Ramesh's wife without them even
settling the basic bills. I still can't believe you were so humane. “
Prakash replied in an annoyed tone,
“Stupid... Am I an idiot to give up a lakh rupees. It was all the
blunder of nurse Rama who you appointed recently. I told her to give
medicine for diarrhea before labor. She misunderstood it and gave
medicine to stop diarrhea instead of inducing it, which resulted in
further complications for the lady. I was overstressed till the baby
could be delivered safe. I just wanted to get rid of her from the
hospital, so that our reputation is not harmed, in case the mistake
is discovered. I was relieved only after he signed all safe discharge
declaration forms. The first job tomorrow morning would be to fire
Rama from her employment at our hospital”
Vani was speechless as she stared at
Prakash with a blank look.
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* One hundred thousand is termed a
'Lakh'
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