That said, here are my thoughts about this issue.
First, I think it is wrong that Apollo jumped the queue and went against the established rules and regulations.
Secondly, I think this particular issue need not be blown out of proportion basically because of the big names involved and the sensitive nature of the issue. Let me try to explain. Based on the news reports, one donor liver was available. It was shared between an adult patient who was already on the organ transplant waiting list and a child who wasn't on the list. That the child happened to be a foreign national is another angle to this story, I'll come to that later.
As per the news reports, 100g of donor liver tissue was used for the child. That amount of liver tissue, if that was all that was left after the transplant for the adult in the list, is not adequate to be transplanted to another adult. So unless there was another child already in the waiting list and was readily available to undergo an immediate transplant, that donor liver tissue could not have been used.
The complaint originated from a rival corporate hospital in Chennai. We don't know if that hospital had a pediatric patient on its liver transplant waiting list and that patient was also in the state registry. If that is the case, there is a serious transgression of rules here that needs to be reprimanded. If that is not the case, this has to be treated as a more nuanced issue. The child's need was more urgent so it was met. The only probable error here is that the Apollo team had not informed the state registry about the special situation and obtained their permission to go ahead - which they very well would/could have given if the circumstances warranted it.
Now coming to the issue of the child's nationality. According to the news reports, the child had already undergone a liver transplant. The child's father was the donor. That transplant had failed, hence she was waiting for a second transplant. The issue of whether the child ought to have been given an otherwise unusable bit of liver tissue from a dead donor is something that the state registry would have had to decide about. That is where the primary error is. This to me looks more an administrative issue than an intentional breaking of the rules. Would the newspapers have made such a big deal out of it if the child was an Indian national? I don't think so.
Six years ago, a ward boy, the lowest on the healthcare personnel totem (also called Male Nursing Assistant) with high school education (passed 10th standard) who was working in my department left to get trained as a radiography technician.
He came back to work in my department after getting his diploma.
We have had an exceptionally high turn over of radiography technicians in the past five years.
The result: the former ward boy is now the senior-most technician in one of the best equipped radiography departments in my city.
Today another ward boy, who has been in my department for just over a year, has left to pursue the same course.
I am sure that he will be back in my department and will be counted as a senior tech in five years time.
I forgot my original blog's sixth anniversary on February 23.
Rather than celebrate a
blogiversary in my defunct blog (long dead and mummified by
Gruntdoc's criteria), I thought I would observe six years of presence in social media (a term that did not exist back in 2006) with a post here in posterous, where I do most of my infrequent blogging nowadays and have it cross post to other platforms where I am active, viz.
twitter and
facebook.
Many thanks to all friends who have followed my journey from the early days till now and all the new friends that I have made (and met).
Inspired by @subatomic's doodles & Savage Chickens.
எக்ஸ்ரே கட்டுரை படித்த ட்விட்டர் நண்பர்களுக்கு மட்டும் எக்ஸ்க்ளூசிவ் கொசுறு.
ஆஞ்சியோகிராபி கண்டுபிடித்த ஈகாஸ் மோநீஸ்தான் லோபாடமி என்ற மூளையின் முன் பகுதியைத் துண்டிக்கும் அறுவை சிகிச்சையைக் கண்டுபிடித்தார். அதைக் கண்டுபிடித்ததற்காக அவருக்கு நோபல் பரிசு வழங்கப்பட்டது.
லோபாடமி அறுவை சிகிச்சை தீவிர மனநோயாளிகளைக் கட்டுப்படுத்த பயன்படுத்தப்பட்டது.
இதை மையமாக வைத்து பிரபல ஆங்கிலத் திரைப்படம் ஒன்று எடுத்தார்கள்.
என்ன படம் என்று தெரியுமா?
எனக்குத் தெரிந்திருந்தது ஒரு படம்தான். இன்னும் இரண்டு படங்களில் லோபாடமி வருகிறது என்று @padmaa சொன்னார்.
விடைகள் பின்னூட்டத்தில் உள்ளன.
அண்ணன் @penathal இது ஒரு தமிழ் படத்திலும் வருகிறது என்று சொல்கிறார். அவர் சொன்ன காவியத்தை நான் பார்க்கவில்லை.
