One of the big problems with public, government medical colleges and hospitals in India today, especially in the Department of Obs-Gynaec is that they have failed to keep up with the times. Thus, there is practically no public hospital in India which offers IVF treatment; and in most of them, the endoscopy training which they offer their residents is extremely primitive. The video endoscopy equipment doesn't function properly; and the scopes gather dust because they are locked up in cupboards.
The senior professors who don't know how to use them, and because they feel threatened, they will not allow their younger colleagues to use them either. As a result, of this professors in the manger attitude, most young gynecologists who graduate from these premier medical institutes become second class gynecologists when they enter practice because they have no exposure either to endoscopy or to…
