For the sake of humanity – by Toofan Majumder

“Doctor, doctor, please save me I am suffering from the new decease which is taking life of thousands. I am going through the same symptoms. Please help me. Please save my life.”
“Wait. Please be calm. First let me know whether you posses the money to undergo treatment for this illness”
“Doctor you know me well I am a fisherman. How could I have that amount of money required for the treatments, I need your help doctor.”
“Whether I am a God? See; don’t expect me to pay your bills please. I don’t know what you people think about us.”
“Sorry doctor but what about my illness”
“I am very sorry man nothing can be done without the money. Just pray to God. Your death will come soon.”
“Doctor please find out a way. I have a family- My wife, my children. Who will take care of them in my absence?”
“Man, this is not my problem. You have to think out a way. Do insurance. I have a form. Do you need it?”

Without saying any word the fisherman left the place. He understood that the doctor won’t understand his problem. This doctor is the richest man in his village but also a miser one. He is a doctor of a big nursing home of a city but also do private practice.
There is gossip from people that he is saving money for making foreign trips. But
can’t he provide this fisherman free treatments without which the fisherman may die.
His family may be ruined. But the doctor is a rich man having two cars and only three
storied house in this village. The fisherman thought.

One day the fisherman was lying down bank of a river. Today he is really very sick. He was crying. Not for himself but for his family.
“How my family will survive without me. Childs are very young. And my wife is physically challenged. I promised my wife that I will give best education to my child but now I won’t be there to help them out.”

Suddenly one car stop in front of him. The doctor came out.

“Oh your condition is even worse. Do you now have the money?”

The fisherman didn’t reply.

“Ok I understood, at least the amount of money to do the insurance. I am an agent too. If you need one form just let me know.”

The car left.

The fisherman was thinking “Why God is so biased?”
After 10 days

The doctor accompanied his son of age 7 near the bank of river to have morning walk. But the child suddenly falls down in to the water. The doctor doesn’t know how to swim.
Nearby no one is there for help. Only that fisherman who sold his boat to gather some money for the future of his family and right at that moment he looks so sick that he can’t move. Moreover that stage keep in touch with water is not good for the fisherman.
The doctor doesn’t know how to ask from help to that person whom he refused giving treatment.

But the fisherman didn’t waste any time he jumped in to the water and saved the life of the child. Before the doctor could say anything the fisherman left the place. The doctor stared at the way left by the fisherman.

That night the doctor realized not for money he should have given the treatment for the sake of humanity. Saving others life is the duty of human being which he himself has not performed but the fisherman did. He decided to give the patient free treatment.

Next day morning he went near the same place where he met the fisherman. But he was too late. Some people gathered there. They are discussing about the death of the fisherman. The doctor checked the nerve of the fisherman and he found the fisherman to be dead. The doctor didn’t know what to do. He left the place silently.


On returning home he found his son to be waiting for him.

“Dad, Could you save the life of the fisherman?”