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 Re: Are We good citizens?...Health care .. We are to blame (Re: Abdalla Ali Abdalla)
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Dear Abdalla,
Thanks a lot for the messages. I read with great interest and pleasure your
exchange with your fellow doctors. It is so sad and depressing to realize
the short change our Sudanese people (nas Mohamed Ahmed Alagbush Alaseel)
always receive from the power to be. This power to be could be the medical
doctor, the clerk in the post office, the receptionist at any office, the
customs officer as you enter Khartoum air port, the guard at the hospital
gate, the conductor or komsari on you bus or hafila, and the list goes
on..and on..and on. What depresses me the most is that there is no reason
for this treatment or lack of respect for the human being as you elegantly
called it. We -by our very nature as many non Sudanese could attest to
that- are very pleasant people. How could a person explain your going out
of your way to help a stranger that you never met before and walk with him
may be for miles to direct him to somebody's house!? How could we explain
getting up in the middle of the night to a company a ginaza -of a person
who lives 10 blocks away from where you live- to the graveyard!? How could
you explain your travelling for hours may be for days to attend your
friend's brother wedding?! How could you explain as our great poet Isameen
Hassan said "nihna helefta mudfoo"!? However, from that same person who
will do all these things and more, it will be next to impossible to crack a
smile on his face if you drop by his office or hospital for a service that
is rightfully yours as a SUGDANI. Maybe it is that when some of us smell a
very remote sense of power they act as if as they are Gods!! I guess this
medresat algaba wa assahra (the Forest and the Desert) is really killing
our souls just like that guy if you read Kamus' or was it Kafka's "The
Stranger". Our souls are a mixture of that of a herdsman (for whom
civilization is not even a word in his vocabulary) and a gentle farmer who
wants to give back to the society what the land has generously given to
him, so that he will get more from it next season. We are
really..really..messed up my friend!! Our PR attitude is nill. As somebody
mentioned in the messages we need to include PR and civility in
our curriculum. So that the new generations will learn how to treat each
other with respect and dignity.
Well, my dear it is a long story and it is close to 7:00 pm and I am
getting tired and hungry. So let me close by saying may be Linda, Hassan.
Mehedi, Asim, Mohamed, Ahmed, Shiraz, Fatima, Omer, Ali, Mazin, and the
rest of aligd alfreed will be better citizens of the world. Amen.
Salam to all
Medani
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