Mav3rick
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I haven't read all the pages but I am just going to express my opinion here. I find myself a bit sympathetic to these Doctors.
In short, IMHO, demanding fair wages for the work anybody does in a peacefull way is not a crime, it is absolutely fair. The 40K for a Dr in Pakistan in today's inflation and downgraded rupee is simply not enough to live a respectful life there. They are not demanding to be put on on Benizer begger progrm, just asking to be paid fairly. If nobody is listening to their demands, what should they do? Should they pick up guns and start killing people, like some thugs in Baluchistan or Fata do?
It is also important to pay them fairly because they are the one who treat the poors, the Doctors working in private hospitals treat the rich and they are the one who earn dis proportionally high wages.
Also, maybe a news to many, but If we look at the number of graduate of Goverment funded TOP medical colleges graduates, IFAIK 80% go abroad because they think they cannot have a better future in Pakistan unless some one succeeds in private sector.
So basically not paying the doctors well means:-
- Rapid brain drain of doctors in Pakistan,,, abroad UK, Australlia are willing to have them.
- Suffering of the poor,, they will be ones who will fewer doctors.
A doctor is a qualified professional who has spend his life struggling with exams, tests and treats people, if a nation cannot pay its doctors, then it will remain sick.
At the end, why dont people instead pressure the government to stop wasting money to LAPTOP, Begger programs, and stop curruption and pay these doctors? Oh yes, it would not earn them votes and media frenzy, because this is what they are after.
A side note for anybody thinking why it is happening? The economy of the country is SICK and Government has no money due to bad governance, corruption and mismanagement. There is small amount of money in goverments pocket which is wasted on BS things,, so this will keep happening until right people run the government. This is a governance issue.
With such a long thread, your point is surprisingly to praise a semi professional for 'what' he/she does for a living! These young devils chose to become doctors, it's not as if the Government held a gun to their heads and forced them to study in heavily subsidized Government institutes for 5 years of education for which the 'poor' of the country paid with their money in shape of taxes!
And please, oh please, do not bring in UK & USA......these countries were infact inviting doctors from Pakistan/India/Bangladesh etc., but not any more. It is becoming increasingly hard for doctors to migrate to UK/Australia now and I know this from experiences of close friends and family. Oh and while we are on the subject of Doctors in the UK/Australia, let me tell you, in bold words, that laborers & technicians such as Electrician/Plubmber etc., make atleast the same amount of money if not more then your average GP in western countries.
My simple advice to advocates of young doctors, look at the salaries of other professionals in the same grade of these doctors and you will find that these young doctors are paid quite a lot more then the other professionals. Currently their demands are unreasonable and their methods unjustified. The Government needs to take bold measures to ensure that this does not happen again, they must be made an example out of.