QUACKS,
MEDICAL MAFIA AND THE GOVERNMENT
§ There is an acute shortage of
doctors in India.
§ Thousands of patients die
because doctors were not available to them.
§ The government is going to
allow semi-skilled doctors to provide medical care where the skilled ones are
not available.
§ Those who see this profession
as a minting occupation than an opportunity to serve have started raising hue
and cry.
§ 45% of medical trade is
occupied by very simple prescription e.g. pain killers, gastric problems,
depression problems etc.
§ Specialized medical treatment
share is only 8.7% of the complete medical trade.
§ As per views by a survey 87%
consumers are not satisfied the way they were treated with by these so called
Trained Medical Experts.
Like other
developing countries India is also facing an acute shortage of trained medical
practitioners. As per statement of the concerned minister in November 2011 in
India there was 1 doctor for 2000 patients. This medical population is usually
concentrated in big cities. The picture assumes a more horrible face in
villages and small towns. As per a report in The Guardian newspaper in 2009 in
India one infant died every 15 seconds in want of a proper medical help.
To improve upon this grim scenario the government has decided:
§ Giving AYUSH docs the right to
prescribe allopathic drugs after a one year course.
§ A compulsory Bachelor of Rural
Health Care course
§ AIIMS-like institutions in
various parts of the countries. They are going to be located in Patna, Bhopal,
Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Raipur and Rishikesh.
§ A compulsory bond that will
force the docs to return to India after completing their medical education abroad.
§ Setting up of a centralized
National Commission of Human Resources and Health which will have all other
medical bodies in the country under its jurisdiction.
In response to this govt. initiative some people
have started criticizing it. In their arrogant style they have coined a term –
Hybrid Doctors. Critics are mostly those groups and people who are least
bothered about the welfare of the country or the human beings but are largely
guided by their capabilities of earning money and adversities related to it.
For this group of thinkers (!) they and their needs always stand first in the
queue.
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