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We cann't care for these people, we need high speed trains and aircraft carriers to make india shining.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35299545#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa


A messiah for India's abandoned sick


Are you in pain?

This is the question Gurmeet Singh usually asks when he enters a
hospital ward in the northern Indian city of Patna.

It is a damp and grubby facility with lime-green walls and stained
tiled floors. Half a dozen gurneys for sick patients are scattered all
over the ill-lit place. A fetid
smell of urine and stale food fills the air. When night falls, rats
slink out of a defunct fireplace and scurry for food.

The food - dinner comprises rice, lentil soup and some vegetable
gruel - is insipid. A doctor and a nurse come on their rounds a couple
of times a day. At other times,
the patients appear to be left to their fate.

Appalling name

The place has the appalling moniker of the ward for lawaris or the abandoned. Put simply, it treats patients who have no family or have
been rejected by them. When they
recover, they are usually sent away to rehab homes - or returned to
the streets.

For its inmates, the ward can be their home for months on end, for
the streets, where they usually live and forage for food and shelter,
can be a harsher place.

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