Let’s face the facts: As of 2017, India achieved WHO recommended Doctor population ratio of 1:1000. (1) This is considered as a “paradigm shift” in public health. This simply means that the medical community has equipped itself with enough number of doctors for taking care of health of massive Indian population of 1.33 billion. What remains now is provision of the support staff like paramedicals, nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists etc, proper number of hospitals, adequate infrastructure, and most important – political motivation. All these are completely in the hands of our governments and officials.
At this moments, doctors are like those soldiers who are fully geared up and waiting for the orders from commanders! Doctors do accept that there are black sheep in the fraternity. But such unethicals may number less than 1%. Similarly, we need to accept that 99% of patients are good.…
