Choosing medical career or being a doctor has become a struggle in present era. Aspiring doctors need to first think- why they want to be a doctor in such circumstances-enduring all kind of exploitation- from all corners of society?
Unable to give doctors their rightful, there has been an administrators’ wish to enslave medical profession. Arm chair preachers would just say “yes, as a doctor, they should do it as moral duty.” In a new era of consumerism, when patient is defined as consumer and medical industry controls medical profession and the financial boundaries. All components of medical industry want their pound of flesh from hard work of doctors and nurses. Every day routine issues turning into medico-legal hassles have put doctors in the corner, resulting in severe distraction from real point of intention-treatment of patients.
Struggling to get admission in medical college, slogging in wards to learn and earn degrees, work in inhuman conditions, listen to endless abuses, tolerate the false media criticism, dragged in courts for alleged negligence, work with fear of physical assaults, work without proper infrastructure and manpower, endangering their own lives, exploited by medical industry and administrators, poorly paid and still not respected.
The Myth of cost of spending on medical education needs to be made transparent.
MBBS medical students protest against Haryana Govt Bond Policy-Rohtak
Educating a doctor cost less what medical colleges claim- a global phenomenon.
Instead of often repeated statements about high expense on running medical college and projecting it as a hard fact, the amount spent on medical students by all medical colleges should be made transparent by all institutions. The frequent statement is made that cost of making a doctor is very high and gleefully propagated by the private medical colleges to extract millions out of young medical students .
Such statements without any actual public data is repeated to the extent that it is firmly entrenched in public mind without any real evidence.
Projection of high cost of making a doctor is the reason with an intention to exploit the young doctors in various ways to get cheap labour and extract millions from aspiring doctors by medical colleges.
MBBS medical students protest against Haryana Govt Bond Policy-Rohtak
MBBS medical students protest against Haryana Govt bond policy detained
In a crackdown on MBBS students protesting against Haryana government’s bond policy for government medical colleges, the Rohtak Police detained around 300 students in the early hours of Saturday and registered a First Information Report in this connection.
The police action came ahead of the visit of Governor, Chief Minister and Home Minister to PGI campus for the convocation of Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak.
He added that the students were now co-operating with the administration and a meeting was being facilitated between them and the Chief Minister soon after the convocation.
The Haryana government had come out with a policy to incentivise doctors to opt for government service in the State on November 6, 2020, saying that the candidates selected for MBBS degree course in government medical colleges need to execute an annual bond for ₹10 lakh minus the fee at the start of every academic year. The candidate can pay the entire bond amount without recourse to the loan or the State government will facilitate them for availing an education loan for this bond amount. As per the policy, the government will repay the annual instalments of the loan if the candidate obtains employment with the State government.
However, in view of the protests, the CM had three days ago announced that students need not pay the ₹10 lakh bond amount at the time of admission, but instead have to sign a bond-cum-loan agreement of the amount with the college and the bank.
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