Monday, October 7, 2019

Is Jagan doing the right thing with Government doctors?

Recent announcement of AP-CM Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy order on government doctors has attracted wide attention & has gained public support & popularity.
Though this scheme is an ideal one it has following pitfalls which may even disturb the current system of health access to all. Here are those unsolicited effects which were overlooked

1) WHO recomends 1 doctor to 1500 people. We will need 6 lakhs more doctors to achieve this.( Cuba leads the world with a doctor to 155 people. Restricting doctors to work only for 8 hours means reducing the number of patients diagonised & thereby making healthcare even more challenging

2) Doctors hon their skills with exposure to more cases in their initial phases of career. Putting time restrictions constraints this. Fresh doctors may even take more time to learn & give back to the society

3) Government doctors pay package is too frugal when compared to their counterparts in the private sector. Pay of a government doctor in TN is about Rs55,000/month( not to mention about what a private doctor will earn). That too with the number of transfers he/she is subjected to in their carrier this brings no motivation for them to take this up

4) There is no pay difference for the speciality & general practitioner doctors. This will leave no motivation for doctors with specialisation to take up government jobs. Promotions & increments are based on years of service & not on merit, This would not attract the talent

Considering the above its imminent that this scheme is not going to do any good to neither doctors nor to the people of Andhra Pradesh excepting a political brownie point which will wane with the passage of time

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Women in politics

There is a silent change happening in Indian political landscape. There are requests and agitations to have 33% women reservation bill introduced but women who hail from ordinary middle class families are ascending to power in Indian politics. Every party is doing this

Yesterday's announcement of Dr.Tamilisai Soundararajan as governor of Telangana was a pleasant surprise( understand even for her). Though she is hailing from a family which has deep roots in Congress she chose to trudge less beaten track. Yes Chose BJP 3 decades ago when Congress was a mighty political party. She could have easily ascended with her family legacy but she didnt.
She took charge of TN BJP 4 years go through her perseverance she had developed a  vote bank for the party. She was villified on many accounts including her appearance which she sportingly took with a smile. She took everything on her stride.

A decade ago no one would have thought of defeating Mr.Rahul Gandhi in his own turf which is held by his family for decades. But Ms.Smriti Irani proved its not impossible

Similarly Ms.Kushboo Sundar with her background of being dream girl in tinsel town entered politics & the national spokesperson of Congress does a great job

Recent talent found in parliament is Ms.Mahoua maitra who demolished the treasury benches with her speech

All these women hail from humble background & proved themselves in the male dominated not so easy political sphere.

This would give an impetus for aspiring women in politics.

Let more such tribe increase