“Death toll in Jajarkot reaches 150 as tests reveal district gripped by cholera”

http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/19-general/566-death-toll-in-jajarkot-reaches-150-as-tests-reveal-district-gripped-by-cholera.html

This is the reality- a reality clearly surpassing the sick side of social discrimination in the context of today’s Nepal. Disease prevailed across the jaats; not all ill fortuned could get the medicines. Medicines and Medicos were not available there. Geography hindered; not jaat bhaat. Lack of access is the problem; high-mountain topography is the problem. This does not mean there is no discrimination in areas where everything is accessible. We do have this issue of discrimination, but broadly economic. But, again, we do have Samata School there, not to mention hospitals and other health and help centers in the capital and along the corridors of the highways and to the reach of airways!

People died in Jajarkot not because of their chronic illness. Mostly were healthy and happy in their last few days! They died because not they were Newars. They died not because they were Chetri. They died not because they belonged to one jaat. They died because they did not get medicines and attention. They died because they were in Jajarkot. They would not have died had they been in Nepalggunj! This contributor sees this case this way, and so you! Dont you?

This is THE discrimination, not discussed often, if there was/is larger quest to tackle discrimination/social-discrimination least disturbing the geo-social existence of Nepal. This does not mean we do not have discrimination in places with access to medicines and opportunities. The discrimination is in other form- the economic disparity.  But, we do have people good people, in their limited capacities though, taking it seriously, talking it sensibly and tackling it rationally. K B Gurung addresses both past and future. That Bhattarai Mantri, discussed upon here for his attire, gives an outlook of our society in humble way. K B Gurung should be the voice on and off the table, not K B Bhattachan. That Bhattarai’s outfit is our reality, not first choice.

Having said it, how true are we! How true are we to the cause! How true are we to the cause of past and present! This contributor is struggling and is passing out time writing this in semi-drunk state. We have MK Nepal, a bahuun like this contributor, the reigning prime minister, who at once instance was heard of negotiating for his daughter’s admission with a foreign dignitary. We have Tamang, again in this forum, talking about onetime Indian Idol’s Nepalism- did he ever face the endless strike like the other Nepali nationals did or are going thru even now. And, in response to Jajarlkot’s fatality and sadness, we still don’t have donors and doctors. Like most of us, the Teaching Hospitals graduates are too dozing off. Do these teaching hospital doctors feel all those who died in Jajakot or their family had contributed in national revenues? This revenue paid these doctors’ tuition at Teaching Hospital!  

In sum, Nepesir, this day’s discrimination has many angles and shapes, trash that social stat and old age social scientists’ psyche if you want to contribute to this holy mission sagaciously.