Pets make great friends, and India has of course a longstanding tradition of ahimsa or non-violence towards all living creatures; but when you observe rats using oxygen-supply pipes as their dwellings at the premier medical facility in the second-most-populous country in the world it does give you pause. (And it makes you wonder, too, whether the treatment you may be undergoing there might not be critically undermined.) Yet this and many other diversions were all routinely experienced by Virraj Sorhvi during his seven and a half months' stay at the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, one of only ten medical institutions in India accredited by the U.S.-based Joint Commission International, purportedly a guarantee of highest standards. In the present video a cockroach is captured while paying a visit to Virraj's bed bright and early one fine morning in January 2008, before five o'clock in fact. It and its friends — or were they perchance relatives — returned many times, and at all times of night and day, too, infesting the patient's bed and bedside stand (together with its medicine cabinet). Chalk it up to one of the traditional delights of India? (The Encyclopædia Britannica states that the cockroach has "Asiatic origins" from which it has been distributed by vehicles of commerce to "all the temperate regions".)
♦ N.B. To see other delights to be encountered at New Delhi's Apollo Hospital, tune in to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_nKJq2i6BA and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jwq6IsZZac
♦ Virraj has been hospitalized continuously since 4 July 2005; he had undergone treatment (mostly by medical neglect) at this particular institution between 17 October 2007 and 28 May 2008. For the latest info, visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/virraj
♦ video location: Bed № 4105, Wing A, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, Delhi-Mathura Road (National Highway № 2), New Delhi, India
♦ video date: Thursday, 24 January 2008 (04:56:00 IST | 23 January 2008 23:26:00 GMT) — 935th day of Virraj's hospitalization overall (100th day at Apollo)
Author: VirrajSorhvi
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Added: 2008-07-18T13:20:33.000-07:00
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