Dear Leo, I think there are several sides of this issue: 1. Beating up the doctors is also politically motivated. I came across a petition which said that those who beat up the doctors must be treated as `terrorists' from the other side. 2. There is also some issues here. The expenditure on health in the budget has not moved according to the changes in the prices of pharmaceutical drugs and hospitals. This is creating a mass level frustration. Health is still not recognised as a right. 3. Some have argued that the problem is between the young doctors and old doctors, since the old doctors become part of the `establishment' and the young doctors get beaten up for the irresponsibility of the hospital. I am still trying to grapple with the argument on `generation gap'. 4. The structures of the public accountability of the doctors are not well established in India and therefore, the public anger can spring up any time. 5. The question about `whose body and whose right' is still to be debated among the doctors. Therefore the doctors can not take the patients with their own arrogance, just due to their simple certificates they have received. These certificates can not justify anybody's arrogance. 6. As per the equation between the number of population and the required number of doctors needed, there is a major gap in India. The pressure is still on the urban doctors as well as doctors in small towns. In any case, those who pass MBBS normally wish to work in rural areas and the rural areas in India are still dependent on traditional health care for their problems. Some of them work and some of them don't. 7. The knowledge inputs of the doctors on pharmaceutical medicines are largely fed by the multinational companies and quite often the interests of profits for the multinationals come in the prescriptions of the doctors intentionallye or due to their own ignorance. 8. The service of the doctors are not framed as `service' in their education process, since the framework is largely clinical in nature and most of them are not trained to be socially responsible human beings. 9. Even if they become socially responsible human beings by their own choice the structural limitations limit them to undertake medical practice as social service. 10. The privatisation of health care is going on adding fuel to the fire. 11. The existing medical associations, both on the mainstream and at the alternative medical practice which is critical to the existem system of health care, have ceased to make an impact on most of the above issues of modern health care in India. 12. There are many other issues, including the consciousness of the civil society and the political parties in opposition or the NGOS, which still refuses to demand at least a portion of the budget which is being used for the purposes of war in India instead of protecting life. Therefore, the public anger will come out on what is immediately available and political interests will make use of such public anger in specific situations. But it is too important to address the larger issues, in contexts like this.
K.P. Sasi On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Leo Saldanha, ESG <[email protected]> wrote: > Rare admission by a senior politician of BJP, Suresh Kumar S, that Yogi is > "uncivil". > > Do comment on that thread, if possible, as it exposes to his followers the > vacuousness of their rhetoric. > > I feel it is essential to speak to sUch constituencies, while also > engaging with the converted. > > > A screenshot is attached. > > > Leo > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
