There's a donkey that lives by the side of the road in the first town past Bilaspur. There's a main commercial strip, and the donkey stays on the edge of it. Its there almost everyday, and it sticks out because while cows are common, donkeys are not. It is usually standing there, not moving just kind of looking at the ground like a sad animal.

Last week, the doctors noticed it sitting in the same place on the side of the road for a few days in a row. One of the doctors is an animal lover, and the thought of the donkey slowly dying of thirst worried her. She suspected a spinal injury. After seeing it there repeatedly, her husband stopped and talked to the people around to try to find out who owned the donkey and what was happening. It turns out the donkey had some kind of infection but was being treated with bandages and medecine. It wasn't moving much, but was getting up to take water and what not.

It is kind of surprising to see such a fuss over an animal, when there is so much human suffering going on in the same stretch of land. The doctors are very sensitive to that suffering, devoting the majority of their time to addressing it. The surprising part is that after all of that they still have time and energy to check out the condition of a helpless animal.