Twitteratti, Facebookers pour anger over hospital blaze
December 10th, 2011 - 10:47 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) A day after the fire at West Bengal’s AMRI Hospital left 91 dead, netizens have poured their anger through social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, asking whether life has become cheap in India.
“The Kolkata hospital fire just reinforces the fact that in India, while living gets expensive, life remains cheap,” tweeted Ajit.
“Does AMRI fire show how easy it is to grease palms and get away with appalling violations of all laws? Does AMRI fire show how easy it is to cut corners while minting money in the name of private enterprise in India?” questioned Kanchan Gupta.
“When healthcare is neglected, public hospitals fall to ruin visibly and others become deathtraps. No one checks. No one cares,” wrote Vidyut.
“Incident again proves that Indian blood is cheap. Neither govt. officials nor promoters responsible for this will ever be punished,” another person tweeted.
In the worst fire tragedy in any hospital in India, 91 patients and staffers were killed in the well-known AMRI Hospital when a blaze erupted in its annexe building early Friday, trapping dozens of helpless patients while doctors and others fled to safety.
“Why couldn’t the window panes be broken by the staff before they left the patients to die? Why were patients not informed,” questioned Priyam on Facebook.
“Medical profession has sadly become just another way of minting money. The medical fraternity has turned into a business venture. No ethics its time for doctors to raise their voice against hospitals instead of filling their pockets,” Ashok posted.
As seven directors of AMRI Hospital were arrested and Saturday sent to 10 days’ police custody by a court, some netizens even expressed their disbelief in the judicial system by saying that all of them will walk free after a few years in jail.
“All of them will walk free or will have few years of jail and that too for this ghastly mass murder. All the directors will have royal treatment in jail,” wrote Palash on Facebook.
“At the end we will be convinced it was just a natural disaster. Look what happened to the victims of Upahaar,” Suman posted.
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