given below a post by Mr. Vivek. It seems a functional proposition. Let planning commission take note of such suggestion. The panel estimate of 1:1000 is not sustainable. However, we need many times more what is available at present.
RE:VIVEK'S idea worth reading
by Fried Yakov on Apr 07, 2008 10:44 PM Permalink
If you follow Mr. Vivek's ideas, you are unlikely to get any quality doctors, though you may get an enormous number of good for nothing people who would be fooling both themselves and others by calling themselves doctors. Why do these stupid rabble rousers not realise that we require quality doctors and not quantity? Doctors who spend the best 12 to 15 years of their lives slogging in training posts of hospitals surviving on a mere pittance called stipend, working inhuman and long hours, with no scheduled weekly off, all for patient care, are appointed in government jobs for mere Rs 20-25,000 (which is often lesser in state government jobs). This is little more than the amount a newly appointed Lt. makes in the Armed Forces with lot less training. Not that I grudge the pay for the Armed Forces, but I use this analogy to show how poorly the doctors are treated in India. Now if you want the medical students to pay lakhs of rupees for their education, do you think they would want to go to a far flung village without minimal infrastructure? Is it not punishing a man who dared to choose the noble profession?
