Are people getting more and more insensitive or are they too busy with their daily routine that they can’t even spare few moments to save a bleeding person on the road in broad day light.
A city that prides itself on its care and warmth let a young techie bleed to death on the road to Kolkata’s IT hub on Wednesday morning. Twenty-five-year-old Bijoy Dey lay injured for 30 minutes after being hit by a bus in front of the Nalban complex but no one stopped to help.
Hundreds of office-goers, including many of Dey’s fellow techies rushing to beat the clock at the 24×7 Sector V, senior government officials and families headed for the city’s fun zones (Nalban, Aquatica and Nicco Park) merely glanced at the bleeding body and sped on.
Even the person who dialed 100 to inform police did not care to stop. “There has been an accident near Nicco Park. The victim is lying on the road,” was all the anonymous caller said. When help finally arrived, it was too late.
In a similar incident few days back happened in a Mumbai local train where a naked, unconscious woman couldn’t get any help.
In a shocking incident that points to the abysmal level of policing in Mumbai, a woman in her mid-30s was found naked and unconscious on a CST-Titwala train’s first class ladies compartment on Saturday night.
The unidentified woman travelled the entire 65-km distance between the two stations in that condition with no help forthcoming from a single commuter. In a display of utter apathy which puts the city to shame, both policemen and commuters chose to steer clear of the ladies compartment fearing they would get entangled in legal hassles.
Doubts still persist if the woman they found in coma is the same woman that died later in St George Hospital.
But it would be biased if I didn’t mention the instances where people were kind enough to help others in trouble or alert enough to save them.
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September 21st, 2007 at 11:29 am
That’s too unhuman! Ok, let’s take a step back, what if I was there? What should I have done? Which number to call? What first aid techniques should I know? What legal matters will I get involved? What other things should I know?
Please let us know if you get any info of what to do when faced with such circumstances in US or India.