Imagine being parents, bringing a child into this world, nurturing them, caring for them, making them the very purpose of their existence.
Then one day, you learn your child has a rare disease called Thalassemia and will need blood transfusions for life.
You aren’t rich, so you depend on a govt hospital for those transfusions. Every session, you take your child dutifully, with discipline, because that’s what love and responsibility mean. Life revolves around them, their smile, their survival.
And then, one day, govt employees at that very blood transfusion centre decides not to do the most basic part of their job, screening the blood to be transfused for HIV.
Your child receives HIV-positive blood.
Now, your child is HIV positive. So are four more Thalassemia kids who were allegedly transfused at the same centre. One act of sheer negligence. One careless, heartless lapse, and five innocent families are shattered. Everything you built, every ounce of love, every sacrifice, destroyed because one person couldn’t be bothered to do the duty they were paid for.
This happened at Sadar Hospital, Chaibasa, Jharkhand. Five children. All HIV positive now. The CM has announced ₹2 lakh compensation. Value of life. Lol.