Conference or Mela?

API (Association physicians of India)

Some one has said-statistic is like a bikini: “covers the vital parts but exposes the non vital ones.”
Similarly in medical symposiums every speaker just to impress the audience initially starts with the statistics of deaths- i.e. every five minutes a person dies of heart attack, every two minutes a woman dies of child birth, A child dies of gastroenteritis every six minutes, A person dies on the road every seven minutes, Malaria, TB, AIDS kills 30% of population in India and so on and so forth.
The audience starts palpating their own pulse just to make sure if they are alive or not.
Some one in the audience who was calculating the death statistics raised a question.”
“Sir, with so much of deaths every minute, how come the banquette hall was full on fourth evening?”
“That’s statistics for you, madam” was the answer from the guest speaker amidst laughter.
Most of these medical conferences in India are held in five or six star hotels where some foreign speakers (sponsored) give a guest lecture during the inaugural ceremony of the conference which goers on and on for ours, buttering one another..
The annual API conference has more people participating, then the test match grounds of New Zealand. Most of the doctors bring their family, drivers, servants, cousins with the sole purpose of eating and sight seeing. Majority of the doctors are old, can hardly walk, do not know what is going on and who the speakers are and on what subjects. Can you imagine the conference is held over five days!!
Like IPL there is a competition amongst different centers to hold the conference! Why you know?
This is a professional secret!!