Irresponsible medical students and professionals
The rudeness
and unprofessional attitude of the fourth class employees in the public sector
hospitals have been going on for decades, without any remedy in sight
It is often surfaced in the media that public medical colleges and hospitals in different parts of the country being virtually held hostage by goons masquerading as student activists, partisan doctors and the fourth class employees. Apparently health care and education finds no place in the list of priorities and establishing political hegemony is the order of the day. The common students who have little to do with politics suffer because of intermittent stoppages of institution and lack of congenial atmosphere for studies.
However, the people who are suffering the most are the patients and their relatives. The intern doctors stop their service at the slightest provocation without a care in the world for the suffering patients. The least the people can hope from public medical college students and interns is a degree of tolerance and compassion. The poor country is spending a huge amount of tax money for each medical student, many of whom are busy doing everything other than learning to be good doctors. What is really alarming is the fact that these very people will man the health sector in future. The plight of the patients then can only be imagined.
The rudeness and unprofessional attitude of the fourth class employees in the public sector hospitals have been going on for decades, without any remedy in sight. Not only do they misbehave with patients and their relatives, even senior doctors have suffered from their rage. Many are involved in rackets for selling hospital drugs, luring patients to get admitted in private clinics and other illegal activities.
In many medical colleges and indeed virtually all major seats of higher learning this dismal scenario is being repeated with monotonous regularity. No contractor is safe from political hoodlums who extort money from them almost as a matter of right. Students who do not want to join political activities face the wrath of so-called student leaders. Even getting accommodation in the dormitories depends on political allegiance.
Of course political violence erupts which many a time results in death and maiming.
The violence must stop. The future of Bangladesh is at stake. However for that to happen, the political parties should do their best to reach a consensus to sort out a future. Short-term and narrow political gains cant come at the expense of the lives of the future generations.
