Medical students across India are protesting a Govt proposal to make a one-year rural posting mandatory. What's your opinion on the issue?

Posted Tuesday , February 07, 2012 at 02:54 : (kumarkishoreg@gmail.com)

To Those concerned:



Appointment of Doctors for Rural Healthcare



The present idea of the Health Ministry of Government of India to extend MBBS course by one more year and post them in rural Health Centres for one year is hare-brained and least to say is stupid and absurd, for the following reasons.

After completion of medical studies, no one is competent enough to practise without the help and supervision of senior doctors. At that junior most level, they do depend on a great deal of laboratory and medical imaging services to make proper diagnosis and treatment. These facilities are grossly inadequate at the rural level.

All that the Government is achieving is to sacrifice the poor and ignorant villagers as “guinea pigs" for future medical practitioners and possibly as a population control measure.

Furthermore, the young doctors are looking for more experience before they start on their own practise. It is the time for them to get married and enjoy life after five and half years of gruel and hard work and study to pass MBBS. It will be a sadistic policy for the Health Ministry to impose this punitive posting for these young budding doctors to be imposed on the ignorant and poor rural flocks.

Will all the elected members of the Government at all levels, High Court and above Judiciary and all first class civil servants at all levels will be submitting themselves and their family for their medical care to these junior doctors and only junior doctors for their medical needs?

As an alternative, viable, useful, more humanitarian, compassionate and effectual alternative is to appoint all those doctors, nurses and paramedical staff in service after they attain the age of fifty+ years to be posted to rural areas and allow them to be in service up to the age of 75 years.

In today's lifespan, it is possible for one to work up to the age of 75 and almost all doctors do work to that age anyway. Give them 50% additional salary for rural postings.

The rural people will have confidence in such experienced medical persons and in all likelihood, a doctor continuously working in same rural area will know the persons health need and will be in a position to give the best medical care.

It is imperative that these doctors should not be transferred and should remain in same area for the duration of their service. The cost will also be much less than a young and fresh doctor’s treatment.

Kishore Kumar

Posted Tuesday , December 11, 2007 at 15:57 : (rupali)

we,medicos are not against rural service,we,as doctors-to-be have that responsibility for sure.we do not need a health minister to preach us responsiblities.coming out the medical school and entering a place where there are'nt even the minimum facilities to serve n practice is'nt right.rural health is an important issue,why would'nt mr.ramadoss employ practising docs and post graduates for this job,coz,he'll have to pay them,his intention behind this is to personally benifit from the funds while meddling with our careers,mr. ramadoss ,we are ready to oblige ur idea,but we need to gain confidence,we need to learn first to serve.we want to do it with dedication and at RIGHT TIME,when we are confident professionals and not when someone forces us to do

Posted Saturday , December 08, 2007 at 08:18 : (Vijay)

I blogged about this two weeks ago. Those interested can find my opinion here..
http://www.catscanman.net/blog/?p=270

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 at 15:21 : (Ankush mutreja)

it seems that the government has made it a habit of saving their faces and their failures by making somebody else their scapegoat .this time its the failure of their rural health program , their ability to provide adequate infrastructure in the rural areas . so who to blame - the doctors .
personally i m not against rural posting . its our duty to serve them but to be sent as trainees would only make the matters worse .
there is no security for us even in central hospitals , so what do we expect in rural areas . it will be a grave threat to our lives. has the honourable health minister ever thought about it or is he just trying to impose his failure on us .
i can give him one advise . quit ur job as a health minister and practice as a doctor in a rural area . it will benifit many people including the people of that rural area .

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 at 14:13 : (Dr.seelam .veerapa naidu)

it isvery funny ,why govenament is so intrest to bring thecompulsory rural bill ,please keep in mind that it is easy for the policy makers to sit in air conditioner rooms and write the drafts,in accordance with the views of rulers,may be the better term here is democratic prostitutes,who are by products of our great democracy.Now adays these rulers are not at all respecting the courts,iam asking ,why these ruleres are not backing any bill or ordinance ,in away that death punishment for corruption in the administrative system., and also why govenament giving permissions for qwacks like RMP s and PMPS,and giving permissions for useless and medical factories producing lot of doctors who have no knowledge at all,and why it is not taking any actions to treat the coma state of the great MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA.How can doctors work in rural areas with out having any basic facilities,and worst perks,when compared with their counterprts in various fields,for example softwre engineers.So finaally iwant to conclude, it is better to them concentrate on corruption rather than this type of un scrupulous rules not at all benificial for the society,.Come with good rules like in U.k like NHS