According to a newspaper report, 2 more NS trainees died and another still in a coma. As a parent and grandparent I really empathise with the parents of the 3 trainees. According to the camp spokesmen, initial treatements were given and did not see the seriousness of the patients to warrant close supervision and attention. Every individual is different and each individual has his/her limitations and tolerance to pain. Only the parents will know these limitation and tolerence. Moreover, among their own kind and age group, the tendency is not to reveal one's weakness and be a sissy. So they bear with their pain and sicknesses until it is too late.
If this had happened at home, the parents would never have left the sick children alone and would have monitered the situation until they show signs of getting better. However this is not expected to happen in a camp situation.
So what is the solution? What is to be done to give the assurance to the parents that their children will walk out of the camp on their own feet. I think there must be a drastic change in the approach to dealing with sick trainees. Treat every sickness as serious, even if it is just a headache. The Camp officers should treat the trainees as if they are their own children. Do to them what you would do to your own children.
That should be the maxim.
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