This is a sequel to my post on 4th about my accident. The orthopedic at the hospital where I was taken to immediately after the accident diagnosed broken wrist joint and recommended surgery and fixing of plate as it is not just bone but a joint. But he said that it is not emergency and I have seven days to undergo that operation. I thought his logic of having a plate fixed as sound but wanted to have it nearer my home if possible and came away with the x-rays.
Next day I went to an orthopedic who is also a professor in a renowned government medical college. His initial reaction was one of incredulity when I mentioned the recommendation and was irritated to say the least. “We teach them not to do surgery unless absolutely necessary but once they start practicing they forget because of their commitments”. So saying he just recommended further casting of the wrist which, he said, will heal in 4 weeks. By the way, he put a casting which is hard like POP but light. My arm is out of the slings, but the disability remains. I am resigned to the fact that I have to type only with my left hand. Maybe I should post some videos to avoid typing:-)
edit on 12th: Same thing happened in 2002 when I slipped and fell, from a bike, due to sand on road and sand in road layer’s head. X-rays showed hair line crack. The first doctor recommended nothing but sling and rest. His senior recommended plate. Incidentally he was a retired professor from a renowned government medical college!
The video was taken on north usman road flyover and you can hear my horn expressing my anger. The way these motorists, particularly two wheelers, behave is disgusting to say the least. Not bothered about road rules, not bothered about traffic coming from opposite side, not bothered about either the shock or the delay their actions invariably cause to other motorists who try to follow the rules. The police are also not bothered to pull up these motorists as long as accidents do not happen in their beat. Prevention is better than cure is unknown both to these motorists as well as to the authorities. What better ingredient to disaster!
It is not new. It is not a brain wave. It is once in a while announcement by the traffic police. Three deaths of elderly people aged 60 & 73 on the same day made them announce once again that foot bridge is being contemplated to help pedestrians cross over and thus hope to reduce the accidents. But did they consider the following:
1. Can the elderly climb the stairs?
2. Are the existing foot bridges being used and if not why so?
3. Are there enough space on both sides of the road to build a foot bridge?
4. Will the foot bridge solve the problems of no foot path or unusable foot path, if they exist?
5. What is there to stop our tankers, buses and lorries crashing against the foot bridges?
6. Will the foot bridges facilitate the flow of non-crossing pedestrians by having spaces to walk around them?
7. If the answer is negative to 6 then will not the pedestrians walk on the road which is the perennial problem?
As it has been already mentioned in some other post the problem to be tackled is haphazard parking which not only reduces the width of already narrow roads but also force the pedestrians to walk in the middle of the road.
Then where will they park? They should have enough parking lots. The parking fee should be small and the fine for parking in no parking zone heavy. The roads are public property. That does not mean we can use them for our private use, be it parking or urinating. Maybe the people who park their vehicles on roads, whether it is in front of their homes/flats or elsewhere should be treated as encroachers of public land.
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