On
27th December 2013, a woman in Goregaon died near public toilet when
a blast occurred in the septic tank of public toilet where she was standing in
a queue. You must have remembered when I told about a mom and her little
daughter who got injured in same incident happened in Chembur area. They are
still being treated in Sion hospital. 35 year old Shama went to public toilet
in Bharat Nagar with her 4 year old daughter Nandini. They were both standing
in a queue as there was heavy rush and waiting for their turn. Suddenly the
septic tank where they were standing blasted due to the gas that injured both
mother and baby. Shama got 70% burns that went critical in Sion Hospital while
Nandini got 45% burns, also declared critical by doctors. Both were left
unattended in hospital for 4 hours after they were taken there because police
didn’t reach there on time. They started their treatment after police arrived.
Her husband who was in US flew to India after listening horrible news about family.
The organizer of toilets was immediately arrested and further inquiry was
started.
The
inquiry was completed couple of days ago which revealed the shocking truth. The
pipelines of toilets were blocked by sanitary napkins and there was no space
left where water could even pass through. Due to the chock up, gas started
being produced and finally made a blast in tank. This was strange as the entire
women living in the area had disposed the sanitary napkins in toilet after use
which caused two women injured seriously. BMC often uses the tagline about
mosquitoes “Boondo boondo se jaise sagar
bane, sagar main vaise hi machchhar
pale”. No wonder each woman had thought. “Let me dispose. Who would ever know?” They did and finally left two
lives hung between the game life and death. Now there is a big question over
the corporation to make the possible ways to make women living in slum areas destroy
their used sanitary napkins. We can say if Chembur blast happened due to the reason
of choking up line may be behind the Goregaon blast, there would be same reason
too. We can only assume that most of women must be doing in the same way that
may create trouble in near future. Moreover, the corporation is also supplying
free sanitary pads to the girls studying in their school up to 12th
Standard by 23rd January 2014. Reading the headlines, I thought it
was a good idea to make girls more hygiene but the second day, shocking reasons
came forward behind septic tank blast. Whom can we blame? An organizer who is
in jail? All women who disposed pads? Or a corporation who built it?
In
daily life, human forgets the little things or duties. Here the same thing
happened. I believe no one should be blamed or arrested because it happened due
to a joint negligence. We can only pray for both mother and daughter who are
surviving in Sion hospital in critical condition and expect such incidents won’t
take place…
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