Yesterday I commented in my blog about the
GMOA giving a solution to prevent foreign doctors from practicing in Sri Lanka
on the grounds that they are bad for your health! And it is both costly and bad
quality. I suggested they take steps to reduce the amount of medical practitioners
leaving Sri Lanka permanently.
I attach a link today,
where they are replying to the attack by the Minister of Health who asked them
to serve their country that gives them a free education instead of going
overseas. The nonsensical replies given by the GMOA in the link confirms my
suspicions that they are neither representing their own, nor the interests of
the country in their pronouncements.
http://www.ceylontoday.lk/51-27139-news-detail-some-doctors-have-no-choice-but-to-leave-country.html
After all we know that the doctors go overseas for post graduate study. That is
fine, it has happened for a hundred years, so what of it if they return after a
good training and an opportunity to work and earn some money overseas. I am not
advocating stopping that. It is those who take the free education, then leave
and do not return. They are the problem!
Then the GMOA says that
Doctors work in far flung regions of the country. Yes, they got a free
education, which if they paid they would have to fork out Rs10M to the country.
So why not go all over the country to treat patients. That is what they are
trained for after all! They then complain that their kids do not get the
schools they want! That is just about the cake. Why should doctors’ kids be
given any preference in State education? They can afford private education if need
be.
Doctors have the best
chance of earning a good living and sending their kids wherever they like. Just
because they also want their kids to go to the best schools in Colombo, we
cannot offer that over kids who live next door to the school.
They have had the best
opportunity in life courtesy of a country that cannot afford their education,
and they are saying that engineers and other professions also go overseas so why
should they not. No one else’s education costs a fraction of the doctors so that
is why they have more of an obligation.
Now that Sri Lanka will qualify
1000 doctors a year in the medical schools, both private and public, there will
be more competition. There will also be less avenues for permanent settlement overseas.
This will in future ease the pressure of the lack of doctors in the health care
system.
I am told that the state sector will find it difficult next year to place
all the doctors that qualify. So the problem of their employment will begin and
the private sector will also absorb them, and their high and mighty attitude will
take something of a beating when they cannot get jobs.
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