A hospital’s music night on non-clinical floors divided internet users (AI image used for representational purpose only)
Because they were bored, wanted a distraction or found hospitals lonely places on a Saturday night, patients and attendants were also invited, he said, with some attending. Tone-deaf max, I won’t want my ageing parents going there,” said Mahalakshmi , an X user.
BENGALURU: A “music night” at a hospital. What an incredibly tone-deaf move,” said Nidhi, another social media user. Another X user, Vishan Singh Jain, said, “Hospitals are not public parks where people go for leisure walks to relax. The event, the invite said, was about “reimagining hospitality”. The hospital management defended the event online, saying the music night was part of a larger effort to challenge the perception of hospitals as “cold, frightening and morose” spaces and make them warmer, more inviting and patient-friendly. Dubey said the event was held on the hospital’s non-clinical floors after OPD hours, with active inpatient areas kept off-limits and separated from the programme by multiple floors and sound insulation.
Yay or nay? This was the question that divided the internet over the weekend after photographs and video clips from a music night held on the non-clinical floors of Superhealth, a hospital in Koramangala, went viral on social media. “Worst healthcare marketing I’ve ever seen! ‘It went viral’ is not a marketing strategy. “There are places for celebrations. A hospital, where people are fighting for their lives and families are going through some of their hardest moments, is simply not one of them. He maintained that no music or event-related sound reached the patients.