You should know, health
minister has the best interests of ailing public in mind aka patients. What he
and his co-ministers or his govt implies that the govt is thoroughly incapable
of running two medical colleges. They don't have the funds. As simple as that.
The funds are required for their entourage, perks, accommodation etc which are
essential of course otherwise how will these public servants tend to the needs
of ordinary men and women who need employment and patient care? Those of you
who are whining and yelping like stray puppies expressing their protest against
outsourcing should know that health minister and associated bureaucrats have
given it a deep thought. They are so experienced after years and years of
public service that they can take unilateral decision without consulting
faculty of both the medical colleges. I really do believe that these harbingers
of public good are geniuses, long wished by the public and enthusiastic private
health companies who have been spending sleepless nights waiting for an
opportunity to serve the public. The zeal is such that they are going to charge
far less for medical college patients compared to that of patients who come to
them through private establishments and that my friends, is called corporate
sacrifice. Not everyone and every company is capable of that. Of course, the govt
doctors working in the medical colleges can concentrate on teaching once freed
of the burden of providing lab services. And therein lies that govt's solution for
improving education. I am sure minor details like, absence of teaching material
once the outsourcing kicks in, will be taken care of in ways my limited mind
cannot imagine. I am sure, health minister and his dedicated team are aware of
a discipline called "laboratory medicine", a separate department in
which one can do postgraduation in a place like AIIMS. And I would share their
view as to how much unimportant is the said field. After all it is just a bunch
of automated machines and people working who just have to push buttons and behold
printed results are given to the patients. Research....oh yea...that is
something we indians don't have to do. We just need to copy it off of someone
spending time in this worthless pursuit in the west. And of course, the
students training for a career in laboratory services can work on contract in
private labs. Health minister thinks rightly that we have discovered everything
that needs to be and hence we don't need more research. And who cares of
biochemistry, microbiology and pathology departments. We will just train the
students at govt subsidized colleges and direct them to the MNCs running lab
services in medical colleges.
Congrats Government!
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