[Assam] For IIT-KGP Alums

[Chan Mahanta]

At 8:03 PM -0700 3/22/09, Dilip and Dil Deka wrote:
>B.C.Roy hospital brings back bad memories. I did survive one week of 
>stay there.
>I remember I saw only a nurse during my stay, there was no physician 
>checking on me.
>I'd have thought that in forty years, the hospital would have 
>improved. I guess to catch up with the west in the space race,
>certain necessities have to be discarded.







*** Or one might say, things in India don't change, IIT or not.

*** I too have horror stories to tell of BC Roy Hospital. I was 
treated for a whole week for Typhoid, when I actually had Hepatitis 
A. But I have no bad feelings--I survived.  My doctor was my good 
friend and class-mate's dad.

I too injured myself on that basketball court next to Gymkhana.  The 
rough concrete slab took a huge
patch of skin off of one of my knees. Went to BCRH. They gave me a 
tetanus TEST shot and asked me to wait to see  if I reacted. I did, 
and was hospitalized. But having had homework to do, in my 
perspiration soaked play clothes, I sneaked right out of my hospital 
room. An hour later when I began to swell up all over from allergic 
reaction, I returned to the  hospital. Shortly thereafter a janitor 
seeing my condition ran off to call the emergency doctor, who, 
mercifully was on the premises  and saved  me from going into 
anaphylactic shock and possible death.



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>From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
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>Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:43:31 PM
>Subject: [Assam] For IIT-KGP Alums
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>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/IIT-Kharagpur-director-quits-after-students-death/articleshow/4302546.cms
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