When everybody will be sick

From Garden City to Hospital City, said a headline. In an year, Bangalore will get around new 3000 hospital beds, claims the news story.

Yes, Bangalore indeed requires lots of hospitals and hospital beds. May be, in a science fiction like scenario, people will even be living in hospitals or medicated glasshouses or skyscrapers in Bangalore. Servants will be replaced by nurses who take care of the permanently ill or disabled citizens in the city.

Such a bleak or black scenario is possible because of the following reasons:

1. The city has crossed its carrying capacity and is reaching its breaking capacity.
2. Alarming rise in air pollution because of the arrival of 200-300 (unofficial) vehicles per day on the city's roads and no effort to control the situation.
3. Reckless lifestyle celebrated by people of all ages. Drinking, smoking, doing drugs, and unsafe sex are all fashionable, trendy, and even "normal" in this hyper-America of India. Those who cannot practice and follow this lifestyle get so stressed that they end up in hospitals.
4. Ability of the corporate world and jobs to convert normal healthy citizens into abnormal, diseased souls with all kinds of lifestyle and metabolic diseases. In 20 years, there will be no one with a healthy heart in Bangalore. Those with a healthy heart can become millionaires in Bangalore.
5. Chronic and toxic levels of water pollution that damages the skin, the scalp, and the head.
6. Absolutely no answers to the colossal amounts of waste created in the city by the law-abiding citizens who never fail to join candlelight protests against government atrocities.
7. Bizarre levels of noise pollution caused by automobiles even in residential areas.
8. Stress and hypertension caused by not just junk food, but traffic, debt, loans, and others.

When you combine all these, the 3000 beds will not be enough. What Bangalore needs is hospital complexes dotting the city's real estate, filled with people who are released into the roads only when they are partially cured. Great going!