Tuesday, October 14, 2008

a little kid's suffering


I felt bad about the kid that has been brought to our clinic. He is so wasted and almost thin for his built. The parents tell us that this kid hasn’t been eating much for five days and has a fever for four days. He rushed down to our clinic to give some cure but after several hours he doesn’t change a little bit. We almost give him 3L of plain lactated ringer solution and one 500ml of D5lr, as we observe the kid he doesn’t give an equal amount of output. For almost 5 hours his urine output is only less than 100 for a 3.5L solution infused. The doctor orders to give plasil, buscopan and gentamycin to give relief as much as possible. The doctor says that there is something happening to his kidney that’s why they have to transfer him immediately to a secondary hospital facility.

It’s not right to blame his parents but maybe this is just my opinion as for my self. I just can’t explain or don’t get the point for them to wait five days before going to a health institution. Two days with no appetite and fever? Why aren’t they so trouble about it? Why don’t they rush him immediately? Why did they wait for so long? I just don’t understand. If they are suffering from financial purposes it is still unreasonable. They don’t even think that if that illness would get worse they would be paying lots for it.
That kid is really suffering. But he does know what to do.

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