Medical donation

While in the UK, I was fortunate to enjoy good health.  So much so, I had to visit the local health centre only once in 5 years.   Nonetheless, I am also aware that in some centres, getting an appointment was sometimes so delayed that by the time your appointment date draws near, your ailment has either naturally healed or aggravated to such an extent that one would have to call for an ambulance.  

The primary reason for such delays was because some (particularly elderly) would book appointments practically everyday.  And that too for small petty health issues, which actually need no medical intervention. Their health anxiety and fear of mortality was so high that they needed constant treatment. 

Luckily in India, we are a bit more resilient.  Perhaps it also has much to do with the financial burden that one would like to avoid.  We visit a doctor or a hospital only in extreme cases.  Otherwise, most of us resist going anywhere near a health centre.  When all home remedies and suggestions of every aunt has been followed, but with no improvement; or rather, one is totally bedridden, then we think of visiting a doctor. But among the Salesians there seem to be a few who prefer this medical tourism. Every other day they come asking to be taken to some doctor or the other, on the pretext of some ailment or trouble. To one such, I had the joy of saying, "'No!  There is no need of visiting any doctor or going to a hospital.  There is nothing wrong with you!" But I'm aware he is approaching everyone, in the hope that someone will actually take him or let him go by himself to the hospital.  

I have a better proposal: offer him to Gandhi Hospital (government hospital of Hyderabad) for medical research.  He can stay at the hospital itself, offering his illness for experimental treatment. It would do a lot of good to everyone!