Yesterday I had to go to a hospital, the Number One Hospital. All government run hospitals have numbers instead of names (as do the schools). In this case being Number One doesn't mean that it's the best, though.
I could very quickly see a doctor, but then nothing more could be done: the whole hospital would be out of electricity until 5 pm (which meant for another hour and a half), and at 5 pm the doctor's working day ended. It must be difficult enough to be without computers and electrical medical equipment, but perhaps the old lady I saw, really struggling to walk down the stairs slowly slowly instead of taking the elevator, was the one who suffered the most.
Some time ago, a ger was set up on the banks of the Selbe river which flows through the city. Now the ger has been moved so that I can't see it from where I usually pass, but the ger inhabitants' animals are sometimes there, happily grazing, ignorant of traffic jams, crowds and air pollution. I should perhaps point out that this really is in the city center and that there is a very posh department store and an equally posh hotel right opposite the spot currently occupied by the sheep and goats.
I could very quickly see a doctor, but then nothing more could be done: the whole hospital would be out of electricity until 5 pm (which meant for another hour and a half), and at 5 pm the doctor's working day ended. It must be difficult enough to be without computers and electrical medical equipment, but perhaps the old lady I saw, really struggling to walk down the stairs slowly slowly instead of taking the elevator, was the one who suffered the most.
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