For a human rights campaigner like myself, it was specially heartening to note the very recent stand that has been taken by the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin against institutionalized racist practices that Indian medical practitioners in the United Kingdom have to experience day in and out. The Association's leaders, Dr.Ramesh Mehta and Dr.Sabyasachi Sarkar deserve to be warmly complimented for finally taking up cudgels and demand ameliorative measures.
Racism has always bedeviled the medical profession in the Western countries ,the prime victims being the coloured immigrant doctors from the Asian and African countries.It is not just confined to the Anglophone countries; Franz Fanon , one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the past century has vividly expounded how racism scars the medical profession in the Francophone nations. Roy Jenkins was perhaps the…
