ON CORRUPTION AND MISMANGEMENT

A doctor, a close relative, wrote on the factors that drove him out of Kerala and the country of his origin. He became citizen of another country.

I wrote.

I really appreciate the honesty and the pain expressed in the post. Such posts open a window for us to learn more and more.

True, you were a victim of rampant corruption and nepotism prevalent in Kerala at that time. It has not faded an inch. Its reach is all encompassing at this juncture. It's everywhere. It's system protected.

I never meant to find fault with those who emigrate. It's a matter of choices and preferences.

My write up was the response to the poser,    

  " Why people return or choose to remain here?"

 I refer to the phrase I had invented, "the ignominal insufficiencies prevalent here."

Yes, it's true. Everything was in short supply here. It still is. The silverline is, Kerala of 2023 is far advanced than the Kerala of 1960s. Whatever we find in the shops abroad are available in plenty even in the remote corners. People have the purchasing power. People have better access to knowledge.

However medical care is still very bad here. Yet  Elsy,  survived a nasty accident and the onslaught of Cancer. Many do that.

Even then Elsy's untimely death was due to medical mismanagement.

Again Papa passed away due to incompetent medical care by Pushpagiri. 

The comedian Jagathy leads a life alien to his nature through the incompetent intervention by a medical team in Kozhikode or someplace close to that. Examples are aplenty.

Yet people live upto their 90s here. 

Here the medical fraternity  at times treat  you to make money for themselves and earn commisions. I don't blame everyone on this. There are very good and conscientious souls among the medical fraternity here who strive hard with limited facilities and resources to stretch the lives of the patients who approach them. Else people would never have been nonagenarians or centenarians in this land of ours.

But who has taught us corruption? 

Every time India or it's states go for purchases of equipments, aircrafts or any other essential things where the cost runs to   millions or  trillions or billions in  Foreign currency, who pays commission to the facilitators of the  purchases.

Corruption is a global phenomena. Because the foreigners have ceaseless money power or resources the corruption they indulge in is unimaginable for the corrupt here where they are satisfied with a pittance.

Corruption is bad and unjustified. Yet corruption goes on unhindered.

We are truly a menagerie of diversities.