Brute force kills
By Pamarty Venkataramana
India has been singing a new pean of #NewIndia and yet we seem to be going back to the dark abyss of self-destruction and the dark ages where might was right .
You don’t think so ?
Forget about the red clothed bundle of papers which allocates huge proportion of budget for defence and war purposes but a minuscule towards agricultural sector. Let us not speak of economics today.
Today’s chest thumping news of the majority party in parliament has been that the Rajya Sabha (House of Elders) has passed a historic Bill called the National Medical Commission Bill .
It, in sum and substance, seeks to make allopathic practitioners with over a decade of laborious studies coupled hands on training (of even three days of non stop, continuous duties) on par with
those who abhor wielding of the knife and advocate swallowing pills, gulping potions made of leaves or herbs/roots/non chemical substances derived from Nature.
Conceded this is an age old time tested treatment system most effective in bygone ages. But what is horrific is the ‘limited practice’ license being sought to be given to non official, non medical students such as RMPs and quacks after undergoing a temporary six month crash course (meant to bridge the gap)! But, bridge what ?
This is a draconian mistake of Modi raj and a Himalayan blunder beyond proportions of wild imagination.
Medical negligence cases galore under a pharmaceutical industry driven allopathic treatment era. Holistic medicine is fine. But certifying non – MBBS doctors as being on par with qualified ones is absurd to say the least.
It is high time for a clamour from the opposition parties still registered with the Election Commission of India to raise the much necessary hue & cry to ensure this Bill dies its death as umpteen other Bills passed by the August Houses of Parliament without receiving the assent of His Excellency- the President of India.
The mystery of who the nincompoop advisers are and which bunch of clerical copy-paste thoroughly useless and substandard bunch of sidekicks of an anonymous dispensation are engaged to draft such loopholes filled Bills remains an eternal mystery!
The conundrum can be solved by adding atleast fifty thousand more seats and adding more medical colleges of highest standards all over India.
India boasts of extremely superb doctors worldwide. The corporatisation by late Rajiv by adding -‘hospital’ in the definition of a -‘ industry’ in the Banking Act,1949 destroyed sanctity of conscientiousness in medical practice. The so called pioneer turned a Buccaneer and now butchers too would further exterminate population of India. After all,only a qualitative population can help create a #NewIndia.
Wake up, Prime Minister Modiji. India needs neat Bills; not bad Acts.
Jai Hind!
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