Politically Medical - Terrible Shame
With protests led by a motley bunch against the Thai government leading to deaths and injuries, one shocking aspect of the whole fiasco led me to think very hard.
After the clash between the protestors and the police, apparently, one or two hospitals whom I shall not name refused to treat injured policemen. As a medical establishment, is there nothing in the doctors’ and nurses’ oaths and pledges that they are obliged to offer treatment to the injured, even if the injured are the ones who killed their kin? Sure, that may be a little extremely hard to swallow, but I believe that doctors and nurses are bound by their oaths and pledges, and it should be reminder to themselves every day the moment they don their respective robes and uniforms.
To take political sides, or even make knee-jerk decisions like that, is in my opinion, unbecoming. Individuals interested in the political well-being of the nation can jolly well apply for leave and participate in the protests. No matter what, the injured policemen were just doing their job (and probably just like the protestors anyway, as it is the common knowledge that a large number of protestors are unemployed individuals who are actually paid to be there).
In a Buddhist nation, is this how lowly it can degenerate to? Actually not caring about a fellow citizen even though it’s their duty to care for the sick and injured? I wish the medical community would voice out against such an act by those hospitals. Far as I know, those hospitals are not owned by the brainless motley bunch, are they?