Gluttonous doctors.

Medical college doctors are a class and they know how to hoodwink the school teacher Minister of Health of Kerala as she is incapable of differentiating Pharmacology and Paracetamol. The doctors with their agitation paralyzing hospitals earned retirement age hike and additional monetary benefits with an agreement that they would abandon private practice. Now they say they would treat any one who reaches them at home for consultation. The medical ethics do not allow them to discard the deprived in time. Nevertheless, this moral calibre was seen absent when thousands of patient in various hospitals went helter-shelter for treatment when the doctors were on strike.
Kerala Government Medical College Teachers Association (KGMCTA) has become a conglomeration of most gluttonous persons in the state. What for they earn these much when thousands in the State are starving and working hard to meet their both ends?

The suspension order served on Dr Varghese Thomas, president of the association was in the right direction. He was conducting private practice in spite of the prevailing ban and his case is not an isolated one. A lady doctor in Thiruvanathapuram enacted a suicide drama after her suspension. She might have opted top floor of the hospital building for jumping out instead of first floor and that too with no information to the nursing staff. None prevents doctors to attend private practice and that should not at the cost of tax payers’ money as their hefty salary for government job. The humanitarian and compassionate approach to patients from doctors often occurs when doctors are caught in red hand for corruption.

The people of the State have no faith in these doctors or in the 'lipsticked' health department. They would like to rather queue before the gates of temples, churches, and living gods with prayers that they may be protected from attending these inconsiderate doctors.

K A Solaman
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