Is the government serious about your health ?

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Last month a handful of doctors from Odisha were targeted by the government in a bid to showcase the clean figure of the government and to pressurise the doctors to work under the governing rules of the state and not demand more benefits from the government.

Doctors had been demanding some benefits like a timely promotion, which the government denied claiming that the same is not available for other government servants of the state. Under such circumstances, do you expect that a doctor will be willing to working in Odisha? Some doctors are working in rural areas of the state while the studies of their children are hampered because of non-availability of quality education and some doctors are in still worse condition, who are staying alone in distant places leaving behind their family in some towns for the better future of their children.

If any demand is not met with then the government lecturers can go on strike, same is the case with teachers, and other government servants and there is no implementation of ESMA (emergency services Management act) while, when the doctors demand something they are threatened with dire consequences like suspension and removal of their registration.

While there is a need of more than twelve thousand doctors for Odisha, there are merely two and a half thousand doctors now in Odisha and most of them are working in precarious conditions in some far way rural areas. Don't they have the rights to let their children study in a better school, what is the use of spending lakhs of rupees to study a subject which is very difficult and also risky and working in a rural hospital with a handful of medicines provided by the government? This is causing an unrest amongst the doctors and every year hundreds of doctors of Odisha are moving out in search of a better future.

Some private colleges in Odisha are now claiming donations in range of lakhs, and we have no idea how much money a man is spending in making his son or daughter a doctor, what is the future of all those doctors? After passing out of his MBBS will the doctor be interested in social service as all expect out of doctors or will he be inclined towards making money to recover those lakhs of rupees which went into making him a doctor.

No one is rich in Odisha, this is governments claim. And in such conditions also people are spending roughly 5-6 lakh rupees to teach their children medical sciences with the hope that they would also be professionally experts and earn a better living. While the attitude of the government is in the other way, it thinks that they are paying salary to the doctors more than they should get.

How do you see this situation? Do you think a doctor will work under pressure without a job satisfaction to the best level that he or she should? Will you be happy to work with a lesser pay without a prmoise for timely promotion and above all in a place where your children can not go to school and you have to work round the clock forgetting about your own family's health and happiness ?

Is the government truly serious about this ?

[Dr.PIYUSH Lenka]

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