A True Story of Defence Medical System

            Happy Independence Day to all of you. Here is my 10^th post after a quite long gap. This time on the occasion of 69^th Independence Day of India i want to share some of the unseen cases in Indian Defence systems. I will be discussing those cases by the use of a story that today i have gone through.

            Its a true incident of “Station Medical Centre” of Air Force Station, Jodhpur. It was around 11 a.m of 15^th Aaugust 2015. I took  my younger brother to the Staion Medical Centre as my brother was suffering from minor fever and little cold ( not too  serious). After entering the Medical Centre we went to the reception and i narrated the information of my father’s unit and rank, and we got the slip with the information of  our father at the top of the slip and the lower part of the slip was left empty for the use of the Medical officer(Doctor) for writing the medicine’s prescriptions. According to the rules we were given 5^th no. In the queue. So i and my brother too k a seat outside the Doctor’s room waiting for our turn, as we were the last in the queue. There were some parents  also in front of us waiting for their turn with thier small sick babies( some were of 5-6 months). After some time the receptionalist named Mr.SURYAWANSHI P.H(dont know his rank) in uniform,who gave us the slip came to me and aked me whats the problem, so i told him about the fever and cold of my brother to him, then he just took the slip from us and  wrote PCM Tablets in the precription area of the slip, he told that “Madam ko jana hai so yeh medicines le lo dispendsary se..”. i said “Aesa thodi na hota hai uncle..” He told “Yahan aise hi hota hai..” . After all this, we still waited in the row for our turn.

 After some time around 11:30 a.m a Air force officer came with the slip who just needed a dressing in his one finger of his toe. Without following any queue or so he entered the doctors room and had tea and water with the Medical officer and got dressed up his toe, this whole procedure took around 20-30 minutes. Parents with their sick babies were still waiting in the row for their turn. But after no response from inside they knonked the door, officer was still inside. As one of the parents asked the permission to come inside, then they were asked to come inside and the process again started atlast. And the officer came out after 30 minutes after his dressing up of toe. And we still waited for our turn and finally my brother got a chance to go inside the room where Sqn. Ldr Sanchita Singh (doctor) was sitting. And the receptionalist was also standing. My brother just his seat near the doctor and the doctor asked who wrote this prescription on the slip. Then the receptionalist Mr.SURYAWANSHI P.H  immediately told that he wrote that prescription. At the end after asking about the problems doctor wrote some 4-5 tablets and cyruph in the prescription.

                                    The main thing that i want to focus on is that we just see news on news channels  showing power of our soldiers and their decipline. But we should not brush aside the problems that sometimes occue at the bottom level of this system. After 68 years of indipendence still someone or the other is ruling someone else. Still their are people who have to just follow the orders of their seniors blindly.