Only in Egypt
"If you find someone dying in Egypt, you better feel sorry and leave."
2 days ago on my usual trip to smart village with Nafea, we found a huge crowd blocking the street, it was an accident... A lady hit some upper Egyptian worker and broke his knee...
We stopped shouted at the crowd that was only good for watching and giving random advice, leaving the guy in the middle of the street while cars were hurling around. We carried him to Nafea's car and had him in the back seat to get him to a hospital.
By that time, a police officer has arrived and accused us for hitting him, once he was assured we are not the ones, he asked us either to leave him where we found him or to drop him alone a bit far from the hospital because if we delivered him to the hospital we are gonna automatically be accused of running him over...
Not knowing what to do, we called the ambulance that came 25 minutes late. But at least I realized why people where only talking without caring to drive him to the hospital...
Result: the poor guy waited for whole 45 minutes, with his broken knee, crying like 5 years old girl with guys around only to give advice and feel sorry. Sheri and I... We got scolded for arriving late...
Where people claim to be helpful and supportive, people get screwed for driving an injured person to the hospital.
2 days ago on my usual trip to smart village with Nafea, we found a huge crowd blocking the street, it was an accident... A lady hit some upper Egyptian worker and broke his knee...
We stopped shouted at the crowd that was only good for watching and giving random advice, leaving the guy in the middle of the street while cars were hurling around. We carried him to Nafea's car and had him in the back seat to get him to a hospital.
By that time, a police officer has arrived and accused us for hitting him, once he was assured we are not the ones, he asked us either to leave him where we found him or to drop him alone a bit far from the hospital because if we delivered him to the hospital we are gonna automatically be accused of running him over...
Not knowing what to do, we called the ambulance that came 25 minutes late. But at least I realized why people where only talking without caring to drive him to the hospital...
Result: the poor guy waited for whole 45 minutes, with his broken knee, crying like 5 years old girl with guys around only to give advice and feel sorry. Sheri and I... We got scolded for arriving late...
Where people claim to be helpful and supportive, people get screwed for driving an injured person to the hospital.
2 Comments:
At 4:34 AM, November 23, 2006, Aly said…
if one can imagine himself in the same situation, you'll never think twice......will just carry the guy to the hospital.
out of experience - had a similar incident 2 weeks before leaving Egypt - I've found the injured guy was on his way to die, cos of a head injury and I decided to take him in my car with another one from the lovely crowd - just to be a witness - and arriving at the hospital, I made the report myself at the police point and insuring that I'm not mentioned by any means in the report.
god bless humanity
At 6:40 AM, December 26, 2006, Superluli said…
it's our law that doesn't encourage you to be charitable..
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