The Kerala Public Service Commission is
becoming more societal and human friendly. The letter of its Chairman Dr. K.S. Radhakrishnan to Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy has a mark in this direction. He alleged that those
doctors in the rank list of Assistant Surgeons in Health Department published
by PSC after conducting interview lack worth.
The Chairman
pointed out that doctors lack general knowledge, no access to newspapers, know nothing about medical ethics,
have no connection with rural areas, no
clinical experience, reluctance to serve in rural areas, interest to work
private hospitals after ensuring government job, bad attitude towards the
public. These are apparently grave allegations and hence those doctors who were
not qualified by the PSC should be asked to forfeit their MBBS certificates.
These doctors, except their guardians, presumably, do not know the source of 50
lakh rupees given as donation at admission to MBBS in self financing medical
colleges.
Nevertheless, it is intriguing to know when PSC
started this human friendly approach. It is supposed that conducting test and publishing
rank lists are the main thrust of PSC and it is not the job to inquire about
the generation of the candidate. The present practice of entrance coaching
based admission has restricted all the poor and backward class away from MBBS.
The admission and study in medical colleges are the business of a privileged few. And
in that context the blub of the chairman of a recruiting agency is a
meaningless gesture. It is the government to do something to check the denial of
opportunity to the poor and the deprived.
Would the sympathetic PSC, on humanitarian view,
give job to a person who have failed a dozen times the PSC test and and still
appearing for it?
K A Solaman
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