Tuesday, March 21, 2006

sorry

Ive been away for a while without warning, and for that I must apologize. Um, ok, onwards to something worthwhile! Anyone read about Sheikh Hamad of Fuijairah trying to help that poor kid? I think it was absoulutely frightning to think about the level of medical malpractice in Fuijairah... Not knowing a diagnoses means you call for outside help,,, not naming the situation "an unknown illness"... This kid deserved better, ESPECIALLY since this was something that could have avoided. I hope that whoever responsible sitting there in that Fuijarah hospital with his fake Degrees gets proper seeing to, so that this NEVER happens again... We are living in a modern country, things have changed,,,So should the quality of healthcare.

On a happier note... Sheikh Mohamed has boosted the government budget for education!!! That is quite simply amazing news IF it gets spent right (fingers crossed).

On another note... Im on spring break, so I might not post for a few days :-p

6 comments:

Rory said...

hey, that's horrible about the kid. but it's not just Fuj where this type of thing happen..

It's just inhuman, to ignore such cases just cuz they don't know how to diagnose and can't pick up the phone to ask about it..

Good news about the education, but you never know where they do spend that money..

Have fun on you're spring break by the way...

Arabized said...

ahhh thats right, i forgot its spring break.

we dont get a spring break?
we have midterms instead :P
lucky monkey.

3li said...

Thanks for commenting... (I love spring break.)

Arabized said...

yea i would think they would change it since at the confernece 'women as global leaders' they kept pointing out the fact that the uae only spends 1.4% of its GDP on education. It got a lot of tsk tsk's and shaking of heads and frowns from the international arena.

3lo> NO MORE MOE FOR YOU. just because you're on spring break doesnt mean you can eat DQ whenever you want. im soo jealous. haha :P

3li said...

... DQ rulz ...

flamin said...

the case of the fujairah kid was very saddening. but having been to kuwaiti hospital, i could completely understand what the parents were going through. my uncle was in the ICU and he was on life support and there were numerous sensors attached to his body. each time the levels went to some abnormal count, there would be a beep. on his first day there, they took 10 minutes to come check on him after an alarm sounded off and i'd watch in HORROR. i'd run to the nurses and say 'hello there's some beep...can u please check' and she'd give a cold sigh and take her time to walk there. grrrrr...and he passed away 10 minutes before i arrived the next day. and they told me that his BP suddenly went low. and in my mind...i imagined the fcuking thing beeping for 15 mins to warn that the BP is dropping fast and those mofos took their sweet time till he couldnt make it.

i just gulped and choked on my tears, telling myself it was his time to go. but all this kept coming back to me as i read the story of the poor kid.

those nurses were disgruntled too - to a point where the patient's pain means nothing to them. i saw their hollow and emotionless faces as they wrapped my uncle in the white cloth.

thank god they're spending more money on education. hopefully the teachers won't be disgruntled anymore inshallah.