An incident that shook my heart & soul and I couldn’t sleep the entire night, thinking about the incident that I watched on television as I felt like humanity dying in front of me. An on duty policeman in his uniform lying in pool of blood, struggling for life and begging for help, but didn’t got any help from the spectators. Among many spectators there were even ministers of tamilnadu state. The two ministers were traveling in a convoy when they saw the injured and bleeding policeman crying out for help. The convoy did stop but failed to provide any real assistance until it was just too late.
People were watching, but none of them came forward to help him, to offer a helping hand, console him and by the time they reacted it was too late and the policeman died. I was forced to think that whether the people watching the whole incident were human or someone else? Has humanity died out? Why didn’t people help the policeman who was bleeding profusely and struggling for life? Or the people were fools to understand that over bleeding can cause loss of life?
I don’t know whom should we blame, but it’s true that everybody present over there are responsible for his death and they all are the culprit. Ministers present over there (so called public representative) are at greater fault, they have everything at there disposal (by the virtue of there power) and they could have easily arranged for a medical assistance for the bleeding policeman; which in fact they could have done if someone of them or there near ones might have gone through the same tragedy.
There is nationwide debate going on, on the creditability and the attitude of those ministers and people present at the incident, but again this will be discussed for few days, people will forget within few days and we will see humanity dying in front of us, everywhere and anywhere (as in most of the cases it happen)
But I think that its time for people to unite together and surface a voice for such in-human act. I have deliberately not posted any images with this article as the images are disturbing and not even suitable for brave hearts like me
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People were watching, but none of them came forward to help him, to offer a helping hand, console him and by the time they reacted it was too late and the policeman died. I was forced to think that whether the people watching the whole incident were human or someone else? Has humanity died out? Why didn’t people help the policeman who was bleeding profusely and struggling for life? Or the people were fools to understand that over bleeding can cause loss of life?
I don’t know whom should we blame, but it’s true that everybody present over there are responsible for his death and they all are the culprit. Ministers present over there (so called public representative) are at greater fault, they have everything at there disposal (by the virtue of there power) and they could have easily arranged for a medical assistance for the bleeding policeman; which in fact they could have done if someone of them or there near ones might have gone through the same tragedy.
There is nationwide debate going on, on the creditability and the attitude of those ministers and people present at the incident, but again this will be discussed for few days, people will forget within few days and we will see humanity dying in front of us, everywhere and anywhere (as in most of the cases it happen)
But I think that its time for people to unite together and surface a voice for such in-human act. I have deliberately not posted any images with this article as the images are disturbing and not even suitable for brave hearts like me
More coverage can be seen at
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/cop_begged_for_help_but_no_one_cared.php
Discussion comments
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I felt the same what you feel! It was painful to see that the cameramen are shooting a death and not taking the cop to the hospital. Shame on them!
ReplyDeletePoliticians and who so ever who has not attended the injured person should be pinalised.
ReplyDeleteEsp. our so called reperesentative.Thick skinned crocodiles.
There is a judgement: People should be made aware of in case of accident or at the time of such occurance.
ReplyDeleteMedical help
These extracts of a momentous judgement of the supreme court dated 28th august 1989 (air 1989, supreme court 2039 : justice Ranganath Misra and justice G.L.Oza) make it amply clear that there can be no legal impediment to saving human life. The effort to save the life of an accident victim should be the top priority not only of the medical professional but even of the police or any other citizen who happens to notice an accident.
Preservation of human life is of paramount importance. That is so on account of the fact that once life is lost, the status quo ante cannot be restored as resurrection is beyond the capacity of man.
Every injured citizen brought for medical treatment should instantaneously be given medical aid to preserve life and thereafter the procedural criminal law should be allowed to operate in order to avoid negligent death.
Article 21 of the constitution casts the obligation on the state to preserve life. A doctor at the government hospital positioned to meet this state obligation is therefore duty bound to extend medical assistance for preserving life. No law of state action can intervene to avoid/delay the discharge of the paramount obligation cast upon members of the medical profession.