Life after the Ganesh festival has presumably returned to normal, but not after several people and senior citizens were put through an ordeal of hardship, inconvenience and suffering, for want of essentials at grocery shops and and life saving medicines at a few pharmacies. A case in point is a super-speciality hospital in the city where there was not a single resident doctor on duty on the day of immersion, as a result of which out-patients were forced to shuttle between hospitals for medical attention and treatment. This I believe to be a case of gross dereliction of duty on the part of the medical fraternity which should be taken up by the Medical Council of India to remind errant doctors of the Hippocratic oath they are expected to abide by. to make them more humane than mercenary. Secondly, private medical consultants should learn to display some more sense of ethics by being punctual on the day of appointment and not keep their patients waiting for long on the excuse of being caught up in traffic jams.
