Thirty-five-year-old homemaker Seema Jain (named changed) couldn’t feel her legs. Just minutes earlier, she had been riding her Honda Activa towards the market area, when a Tempo Traveler suddenly emerging from a bylane and hit her vehicle’s rear wheel, throwing her off balance and to the ground.
Bystanders had called an ambulance and as she was being hauled in, she felt something was wrong. Her legs felt unnaturally numb, while the rest of her body was in mild pain from the shock of the accident.
The doctor in the ambulance stabilised her and seemed to acknowledge that she had no sensation in the legs.
Seema doesn’t clearly remember what happened next, but that the entire procedure – of going from the ambulance to the hospital, being treated by doctors and finally being discharged – was rather smooth, unlike what she had heard of about patients involved in accident cases.
It was almost as if the doctors knew who she was, what her ailments had been, and then administered the most appropriate treatment to which her body responded well.