Over a 100 people, inspired by the compassionate speech of former president APJ Abdul Kalam, on Sunday, signed forms pledging their organs after death to the needy at a well-attended inaugural function of the new Indus Westside Hospital at Kengeri.
Kalam, known for his pro-active speeches, urged people to make India a great nation. He said no nobler service existed than bringing succour to the sick, and doctors and nursing staff must play angels to the suffering. As is his wont, Kalam administered an oath to the doctors to achieve success in this mission with “integrity”. He warned that it was not an easy task and the oath was not to be taken lightly.
Kalam listed six virtues for the caregivers: Generosity, Ethics, Tolerance, Perseverance, Concentration and Intelligence. He was glad that the new hospital has resolved to give holistic medicine, including Ayurveda, Naturopathy and Yogic Science.
The former president wanted a preventive healthcare study on those afflicted with major maladies and how they contracted it, so that their kin could be saved.
“I’m visualising how an ideal hospital should be. It should be angelic by look, give confidence to patients, and the service should be quick and efficient,” he said.
Kalam took a jibe at the modern medical practices, saying most of them have a penchant to give the suffering patients “diagnostic pain”, meaning that doctors thrust on hapless patients a series of unnecessary tests that inflate bills, terming this a cruel practice.
Earlier, CMD, Westside Hospital, Dr Ashok Jain, and others explained the great virtue in saving lives and the need for human organs, which would anyway be destroyed after death. Kalam was quick to capitalise on it and wanted the new hospital to be a role model. He dwelt on the virtues of medical profession and saving precious lives by organ replacement. The hospital had arranged pledge forms to be filled by the nearly 2,000-strong audience.
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