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I am sorry but I dont see how Aarya😕 I understand that a doctor who is averse to serving in the rural area under any circumstance has his priority elsewhere. At the same time the reason for working in a village may be out of some compulsion for all you know. I dont get the logic of a medical professional being termed as more dedicated or passionate because he happens to work in a rural area against those who may be working much harder in a city. What you guys are talking about looks more like a missionary --a mother Teressa type who sacrifices her all for saving the downtrodden lives! You seem to forget that we are talking about professionals and not some social worker which actually dont need to belong to this field. Just about anyone can work for charity for people's welfare. What stops them? As a medical professional he also has a duty to continually upgrade his professional knowledge and skill and seek ways to improve the present logjam. Simply giving firstaid and referring patients elsewhere can be easily handled by lesser qualified personnel like the ANMs or anganwadi workers. Why a MBBS doctor or MD doctor for that? If people really expect the village conditions to improve then people from every walk will have to contribute so that the MBBS or MD doctor is able to do justice to his knowledge in treating people. Have good lab facilities, x-ray facilities without which its like working blind. Pharma companies can provide subsidised medicines, medical appliances, equipments to set these up. The engineers and architects can contribute by helping to build good hospitals, labs or dispensaries without their usual "commercial interests" to enable better delivery of health services. The computer professionals can help in better e-connectivity by volunteering their knowledge and skill. I wonder what stops them from helping to save lives? Why leave that only to a particular profession? Many medical colleges in India now have facilites for telemedicine and video conferencing where their medical experts do give"free" guidance, diagnosis and assistance to the hospitals in far flung areas. Most of them do not get any extra pay for all the time and expert advice they dole out. Many training sessions are also provided free. The number of ever increasing patients seen in the public hospitals in the cities are accommodated by these professionals without any incentive for the huge numbers of patients seen. Yet they do their duty day and night, holiday or not, with hardly any break. all this while attending to their academic and other administrative duties unlike those posted in the villages. How are these being considered less passionate than those in the rural areas is what I fail to understand ???? If saving lives is the measure for passion then those with better facilities at their disposal are doing a much better job and over and above that they also contribute to a much larger extent by training other professionals and also general public through their academic contribution. Some at the senior levels also play an important role by influencing govt policies. All that is done with the goal of serving the people. There isn't any financial benefits in most of these activities in case you think otherwise.

When needed people should not hesitate to work under adverse conditions like you guys are saying. But your expectation to "give up" an established practice to migrate to an area where they do not get to realize their full potentials of skill is impractical. There can be many ways to contribute their expertise "more efficiently" "without" having to physically "relocate permanently". More lives could be saved this way without having to "sacrifice" their own lives. That way more people can get involved. The govt has a role to play which it does not. It can easily make rural posting for all new doctors compulsory like being done in some states and levy a hefty bond or price for those opting for off shore lucrative posts. The country does not benefit one bit from such emigrants. Those investing huge amounts as fees and other expenses in studying in pvt medical colleges may be exempted perhaps . Incentives in the form of preference during admission to higher studies to those who served in rural areas as being done in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, some states of NE could serve as a motivation for all students. This should apply to all fields and not only medical. Hoping others to leave established practices and move to the villages isn't going to yield much result. Creating conditions for everyone to want to go there would.