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i had already posted this video in another forum. and some of those members are here too, i request them to kindly ignore this. i am making this thread to make poeple aware of an issue. no one need agree to what i have to say . i had thought of posting this in another thread here but not sure if the topic maker wud have liked that.
this video is about lathicharge on post graduate student. 400 police men charging the hostle with lathies. the reason was one of the patients had died in the casuality ward and the violence had broken out with irrate patients relatives scuffling with doctors on duty. this incident happenned in 2010 but these incidents are fairly common. this video is the onyl documented evidence i can find on internet to substantiate my facts but it is by no means a rare and isolated event.
the points i want to convey is :
1) itis ok to talk about work ethics and expect doctors to stay back in india. but in abscence of financial incentives ...a safe working atmoshere is a just demand. otherwise one can imagine not many people might want to join medicine tomorrow. the rate of students opting for medicine is already declining very fast.
2) the public needs to be made aware that doctors are just like them, human beings. they have limitations and many a times a patient may be already beyond the stage of being helped.
3)sometimes there is genuine lack of infrastructure which may lead to a patient dying. in my experience a little boy who was bitten by a snake couldnt be saved becuse there was not enough anti venom in the entire city to combat the poison killing his body.
4) trust building measures through programs like satya mev jayate can sensitise the public towards the difficulties and hard work which goes into becoming one. rather than demonising doctors ... the public shoudl be made aware that they are infact very much aware of their responsibilities and do their level best to help a patient.
5) violence on unarmed doctors is not the right way to get them to work and should be discouraged and condemned nto fuelled and defended.
6) the myth that doctors' strike kills patients is just a myth. this too needs to be cleared by making a documentry ont he backup functioning of the hospital in times of crisis anda reference to the statistics to show the normal nuber of deaths in an average day of that hospital to substantiate any claims made that infact more number of patients are dying than average.
with this hope i close my message. i have no wish to debate further ... as this post is not for debate just for information. and i request the memebrs from other forums , this thread is about a cause , it would be good if u do not bring personal bitterness here and spoil it.