A friend, Allus-J, from Bangalore shared this story:
As part of her Ph. D., she was volunteering with a closed door facility in B'lore. I mean a mental asylum. There she was able to work only 15 days. Then she bolted out of horror and grief.
Bharthi Ajji was incarcerated there, said to be 'schizophrenic'. A-J found her clutching her stomach with severe pain. The hernia had started to show through the navel. She insisted with the ruling doctors that Bharthi Ajji needed emergency care. The doctors neglected this until she could bear it no more and was literally collapsing. A-J was shocked that the attendants in the asylum were not willing to accompany Bharthi Ajji. A-J herself accompanied her. But it was too late. Ajji was admitted in the hospital, many days too late, and died in the hospital.
How people die in such facilities is an untold story.
As part of her Ph. D., she was volunteering with a closed door facility in B'lore. I mean a mental asylum. There she was able to work only 15 days. Then she bolted out of horror and grief.
Bharthi Ajji was incarcerated there, said to be 'schizophrenic'. A-J found her clutching her stomach with severe pain. The hernia had started to show through the navel. She insisted with the ruling doctors that Bharthi Ajji needed emergency care. The doctors neglected this until she could bear it no more and was literally collapsing. A-J was shocked that the attendants in the asylum were not willing to accompany Bharthi Ajji. A-J herself accompanied her. But it was too late. Ajji was admitted in the hospital, many days too late, and died in the hospital.
How people die in such facilities is an untold story.
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