DailyPost 2919
SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE – EXECUTED SYSTEMATICALLY – BYSTANDERS ALL!
When the issue is known, the solutions known and practiced over a long period of time, the time is that of crisis, need to bring back normalcy the most urgent, victims at the receiving end crying for help, support, succour and justice and yet it does not happen, can be termed as system collapse. This being executed systematically can be seen in the RG Kar case, while there was a shrill battle cry that so much was being done, nothing could be seen on the ground. But for the first few days when the system found losing grip some quirky action was being taken, rest has finally turned out to be hogwash.
When the system on the face of it works overtime to create a smokescreen of trying to provide what is being asked for, and the system keeps taking circles, it is systemic collapse at its full bloom. Systemic collapse does not mean a collapse of the system for all, but on the contrary, it means that the system works only in favour of vested interests. People who have taken the system in their octopus like grip. When this system gets into the execution mode for any crisis, it executes its model with a level of precision that is unimaginable. It gives a very messy look, but the results are very precise in the favour of the vested interests.
Towards the end it will bite the person and community it is mandated and designed to protect and work for. The model has worked very successfully in the RG Kar case and the agitating residents were forced to get back to work, on the face of it, it has happened after supposedly long winding and detailed discussion. In reality, they were tired out by the ones who were playing their games from their air conditioned offices, well accosted by a battery of strategists, known by different names. The doctors had to battle it out in rain, dust, heat, stress, risking their own health and what not? We are a welfare state. At the end of it all, they were put in dock for breakdown of medical services and unsubstantiated death of patients.
They had to keep on defending themselves, that the deaths that had not happened because of their strike. What did they finally achieve? Nothing at all. The transfers of few officials, who’s worth all of us know, is barely a milestone. The security on the medical college campuses remains tenuous as ever. The CISF on RG Kar cannot be a permanent arrangement. There is no security blueprint in place from the concept to resources to execution. Might be not even unskilled security guards augmentation would have taken place, leave aside video analytics and video footage on a daily basis. Court and doctors have to be satisfied with the government affidavit in the name of security. Have the irregularities and high handedness in government healthcare institutions been wiped out? Or is there any effort in this direction? CBI is outside of bounds for the agitating doctors, yet they need to have complete faith in the ‘caged parrot,’ no timelines notwithstanding. The simple demand of a responsive and transparent treatment turned out to be a pipedream. Are we back to square one or even worse?
THAT NO AGITATION WOULD BE ALLOWED TO SUCCEED HOWEVER GENUINE IT MIGHT BE, IS THE CLEAR CUT MESSAGE, EMPHATICALLY DELIVERED TO THE NATION.
Sanjay Sahay
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