India's Emergency Response System Needs Urgent Fixing

I was riding with Gowtham on his Yamaha FEZ motorcycle from West Mambalam, Chennai to Kovalam further down the coast to meet our friend when we drove up to a little boy and an older woman in the middle of the road. There was blood. There was confusion. Nobody knew what to do or how to help.

I told Gowtham to stop. I ran to the boy, about 10 years old, who was spitting copious amounts of blood out of his mouth. He and his "Akka" (older sister in Tamil) were squatting in the middle of the road, terrified. The boy was screaming and spitting bloody murder.