The purpose of opening this thread is to appeal to my Pakistani brethren to share ideas about how we can utilise our existing infrastructure, facilities and resources to gain the maximum and improve our overall conditions and living standards. I am sure a lot of you must have been discussing and propagating these ideas, so why not dedicate a thread to it? That way we can list our ideas at one place and may be one day someone from who really is in the decision making position would (miraculously) read and benefit from these ideas. Any other non Pakistani member is more than welcome to contribute and help us with doing things differently.
So as I have opened this thread so I shall take the lead and share an idea. We can all then discuss its practicality and implementation.
Any Pakistani, I am sure would have more than once experienced that uncomfortable situation of waiting on roads because of some VIP movement. It may have started little but now its a full grown trend, that apart from key state officials, many people move on roads with those police and security forces entourage, all those sirens and buzz of multiple fast moving cars and police waving like thugs at citizens to move out of the way ......... honestly its a very depressing and helpless situation to be in, especially when you are paying huge amounts of taxes and you see a highly incompetent corrupt thug wasting your hard earned money to make you look like a nobody ........... I understand that ........ but the point to make is all roads get closed, traffic comes to halt hours before any such VIP movement is supposed to happen ......... so much importance put to a trivial matter and so much money wasted on an exercise that can be conducted otherwise, however, what do you think of when you hear an Ambulance stuck in that traffic halt, with nowhere to go and a human like me and you suffering inside, or worst breathing his last because the ambulance couldn't make it in time to the hospital ............. that very thought has been frustrating for me, because I always think it could be me in that ambulance and these insensitive thugs would make me die in there because they want everyone to witness their might and waste of state's resources. Or it could be an ambulance stuck in our huge slow moving traffic .............. the thing remains that we don't value a human life, don't feel sympathetic to other's suffering in our frustration, we don't give way to an ambulance that easy ......... and on top of everything we don't try improving the situation.
My idea is why we don't have separate ambulance tracks connected to various hospitals in a city? A track that is to be used by ambulances only, so that anyone in dire need of medical attention gets it in time. Why no one ever thought about it? Money is the problem? But in countries like Pakistan we Pakistanis know money is not the problem, perhaps its the mentality that is the problem. Anyways okay suppose a separate track cannot be constructed for ambulances how about using this Metro bus track(s) ............ its wide enough and has buses running on it in one direction ........ so how about we share these tracks with the ambulances? No extra money involved and considering how current government is addicted to building these tracks there shouldn't be problem if its used for a noble cause?
@Shaheen @H!thchiker @Hellhound @Tps77 @Ejaz @khafee
So as I have opened this thread so I shall take the lead and share an idea. We can all then discuss its practicality and implementation.
Any Pakistani, I am sure would have more than once experienced that uncomfortable situation of waiting on roads because of some VIP movement. It may have started little but now its a full grown trend, that apart from key state officials, many people move on roads with those police and security forces entourage, all those sirens and buzz of multiple fast moving cars and police waving like thugs at citizens to move out of the way ......... honestly its a very depressing and helpless situation to be in, especially when you are paying huge amounts of taxes and you see a highly incompetent corrupt thug wasting your hard earned money to make you look like a nobody ........... I understand that ........ but the point to make is all roads get closed, traffic comes to halt hours before any such VIP movement is supposed to happen ......... so much importance put to a trivial matter and so much money wasted on an exercise that can be conducted otherwise, however, what do you think of when you hear an Ambulance stuck in that traffic halt, with nowhere to go and a human like me and you suffering inside, or worst breathing his last because the ambulance couldn't make it in time to the hospital ............. that very thought has been frustrating for me, because I always think it could be me in that ambulance and these insensitive thugs would make me die in there because they want everyone to witness their might and waste of state's resources. Or it could be an ambulance stuck in our huge slow moving traffic .............. the thing remains that we don't value a human life, don't feel sympathetic to other's suffering in our frustration, we don't give way to an ambulance that easy ......... and on top of everything we don't try improving the situation.
My idea is why we don't have separate ambulance tracks connected to various hospitals in a city? A track that is to be used by ambulances only, so that anyone in dire need of medical attention gets it in time. Why no one ever thought about it? Money is the problem? But in countries like Pakistan we Pakistanis know money is not the problem, perhaps its the mentality that is the problem. Anyways okay suppose a separate track cannot be constructed for ambulances how about using this Metro bus track(s) ............ its wide enough and has buses running on it in one direction ........ so how about we share these tracks with the ambulances? No extra money involved and considering how current government is addicted to building these tracks there shouldn't be problem if its used for a noble cause?
@Shaheen @H!thchiker @Hellhound @Tps77 @Ejaz @khafee