An open letter to Suad Numanović
Dear Mr. Numanović, double minister, I want to write you a few words. I am writing to you exclusively as a citizen, without the intention of populist profiteering.
Mr. Numanović, minister, doctor, on March 9, you cold-bloodedly stated to Radio Antena M that for you the death of a baby in a Bjelopolje hospital was nothing spectacular?! More precisely, you said with particular ease that "what happened in Bijeli Polje was not spectacular" and that "such things happen everywhere in the world." So you emphasized that "there are European experiences and estimates that 37.000 deaths per year are directly caused by hospital infections". Suade, for God's sake? This statement is as bleak as the death of a newborn. You kill with words!
Ministers, ministers... I will suppress this nagging sediment of some vague restlessness I feel and focus on your well-bred insolence, but the same contempt remains. I wonder when you started to consider yourself so superior, so you say and note "that the healthcare system in Montenegro passed the test in extreme situations". What extreme situations did you mean? Infections of babies in Bijelo Polje? And yes, that is not spectacular for your acquired ministerial privilege. You probably meant the cholera epidemic in Montenegro at the end of the XNUMXth century. Well, just as if you were talking about excavators and not about human life, no matter how much you justify that your statement was taken out of context.
With your statement, you showed that you are a gentleman without any emotional states, which, well, should make a man what he is. Perhaps you were shaken by the "inhumane" (I would say deserved) detention of the doctor; or maybe you're just a loyal man with spectacularly bad rhetoric.
I wonder, Doctor/Minister Numanović, what would be spectacular for you? The death of two babies, five, ten? "Spectacular" death of twenty babies? Or, God forbid, your death?! It would be almost renaissance if you were in Thomas Mann's sanatorium, no less lucid if it were Your Spring and not Ivan Galeb. But they didn't. This is your internship spring, you work for an indefinite period and live according to the number of words you speak, slow and boring. You strive for duration.
Many other, more developed and less developed, healthcare systems are not immune to hospital infections. It happens! Do you know that there are cases like this in Ethiopia or Somalia after hygiene disasters? Maybe there, too, some VD Numan Suadhi calmly declares after someone's death - the health system in Africa works as well as possible.
Suade, do you have children? Grandchild? Can you imagine yourself in the misery of that unfortunate parent from Bijelo Polje? You know, he heard your statement! And if that tragedy happened to you by any chance, would you have said that again with a shudder: there is nothing spectacular?! However, as confident as your statements may sound, I believe them that you don't leave anything to chance, not even our hospitals, and that you are a user of the health records of private clinics. And your family?
Well, my Suade... The man here was killed a long time ago, but you are dissecting his soul. Where you are a minister, death has a plan. Sometimes you stare into the past, so you remember, among others, Cetinje Dragan Marković and Ivana Šoć. What? They are not in your mandate! Mr. Suade, you said that the health system in Montenegro works perfectly, aha, galloping in an incredible circle of success, and what about a few thousand pensioners who are not provided with medicines?
For them, you come up with some spectacular forms of survival at any cost, right? Minister, what do you think, is there nepotism in healthcare? This is what happens when a hospital instrument breaks down, so doctors call patients to private clinics to charge and take extra money. There is no such thing, for sure, just as there is no corruption in the Government. Your visits to hospitals after the resignation of Minister Radunović are ridiculous, senseless, absurd, devoid of reference. As for the advertisement - Villaribo is better than Villabah in removing stains from tins. Except, Numanović, in this case those tins were fatal for a newborn.
When you talk about medicine (and I mean all of you in the government), you talk like bartenders, who brag to their employer that all the glasses have been washed and that the customers no longer complain of herpes. But, Mr. Minister Dr. Numanović, I know that in this vicious fight to keep everything the way it is and to preserve the positions of doctors, you are braver and healthier than ever, but keep in mind one spectacular quote from Nietzsche: "I have not become a worm, although I have often I had to work and dig like a worm”.
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