Within half an hour of expressing my views on swine flu in the last blog, a good old dear friend called up from Ahmedabad stating about the latest piece of news published in Ahmedabad Mirror. Only if the forbidden souls (governing this great nation of ours), and particularly the honoured minister have some semblance of credibility and responsibility left in their conscience, they would hang their heads in shame.
In the midst of elaborate administrative measures emanating from the glass houses of India's Page 3, there comes the news of incoming passengers at the airport not being subjected to even the bare minimum precautinary tests to detect the presence of flu symptons. More abyssmal is the procedure of getting a form filled up for formality sake -leaving it to the manipulations of the passengers themselves to indicate if they have any symptons. One such passenger royally landed at Ahmedabad airport with no one ever scrutinising him for the virus. The paper rightly exposed the hollow nature of truth carried from the air-conditioned precincts of the minister's office.
When countries all over the world are putting their head and shoulders to curb the evil in the bud, and even deporting back the infected patients--------the seventh largest nation in the world with a share of almost 1/7th of the world's 7 . 5 billion workforce, the world's largest democracy with the the most voluminous constitution, a nation with the maximum no. of reservations in the working sector, a democracy that thrives on max. dharnas and chakka-jaams,,,,,what if that nation lives in the medieval mindset --a nation bereft of any vision for its subjects, without any minimum standards of governance, a country where one M.P. is priced at 25 crores in the coalition era, where M.P.'s are at their hooligan best in the parliament, where tainted occupy the presidency, where a C.M. spends 600 crores to install her own statues while allocating just 200 crores for draught relief.......................................that nation sooner or later is a doomed nation where people would perish because of the incompetence and unworthiness of the people in power.
Until and unless the quality of the politicians rises above the demarcations of caste, religion and regionalism and corruption at high places handled with an iron hand, until the responsibilty is fixed and time oriented visionary tasks not followed, until the garbage disposal sequence right from the doorsteps not streamlined and 60% sanitary staff working in proxy not taken to task..............we will be jumping over from one meningitis to another dengue to subsequent bird-flu to the latest swine flu..........the list will go on increasing with new terminlogical ailments knocking at our graves...........and Gulam Nabi Azad throwing up his hands defending the same with innocent sweet words --------we cannot control the swine flu ... sooner or later it had to strike...........pouring like honey. What he missed out was that he forgot to put some medicos at the airport to check the swine infected cases or he couldn't control the masks to be sold at Rs.350/- where its original price is around Rs. 100/-, else he first blamed the innocent victim of spreading the disease and when media went hammer and tongs he spend the day apologising for the same..........
Well if the Minister could roll-up his sleeve for the next epidemic to be efficiently nipped in its infancy, You my friends would surely have a better news to say.....................
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