Docs protesting VIP culture write to Modi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
13.04.2021
The doctors’ association Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) has written to the Prime minister complaining against “the VIP culture in government hospitals” whereby government doctors were called to the homes of politicians to provide testing and treatment.
The letter pointed out that there were no facilities for doctors working on the frontline when they tested positive, while “priority is being given to all the so-called politicians and their party workers who have actually held rallies and increased the spread of the virus”.
“Central government hospitals have VIP counters for testing, allowing all party workers of politicians and ministries to get themselves tested but doctors have no separate counters for testing,” stated the letter. It added that even when the VIP counter was available for testing, a majority of politicians called doctors to their residence though there was no legal order from the medical superintendent to do so. This “informal” arrangement of using doctors working in government institutions in this manner was reducing and wasting the limited manpower available, said the FAIMS letter.
It concluded stating that as doctors they strongly opposed “this VIP culture being awarded (sic) to politicians, bureaucrats, party workers etc.” and sought the PM’s intervention in the matter.
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