DOING Service. Doctors Of India Neighbourhood Service.
A suggestion to improve both India's Relations with neighbours and Medical Tourism to India. Experienced Indian doctors can enrol to serve in SAARC nations for a year on sabbatical, that is leave with pay. People from neighbouring countries will love India for the service. Our relations through this people-to-people contact will give us great leverage in our official country-to-country contacts.
Indian doctors also will get global recognition. Indian doctors were the toast of America in the 1960's when the US desperately needed doctors. Then the US Medical lobby made it very difficult for outside doctors to get to work in USA. Indian IT professionals are the present high-flyers who bring fame to India. It is time Indian doctors reclaim their global fame. DOING Service can make that happen. It will give our doctors a global profile. Our surgeons already seem to be in great demand for life saving surgery. DOING Service will enhance their fame.
This in turn will help medical tourism to India. As it is, a lot of private sector hospitals in Chennai are filled with patients from Bangladesh, Pakistan and the middle East. In fact several hospitals have an adjoining lodging facility for relatives accompanying patients. This leads to a lot of money being spent in India beyond hospital expenses. Apart from earning foreign exchange the tourism will give visitors a better picture of India.
As an added benefit, young doctors in Indian hospitals will get increased opportunities while seniors are away since the 'sabbatical' option will be given only to doctors with some experience. However when the seniors are away, young doctors in the same hospital will get a chance to handle situations of greater responsibility. This will improve our hospital system.
In time, when the scheme becomes popular, the sabbatical to go abroad may be offered only to doctors who have already done such a sabbatical in Indian villages. This way we can pave the way for specialist doctors helping out in Indian villages. Most of all, DOING Service will bring back the spirit of service to the medical profession which seems to be lost in money making at present. It will make doctors noble all over again.
A suggestion to improve both India's Relations with neighbours and Medical Tourism to India. Experienced Indian doctors can enrol to serve in SAARC nations for a year on sabbatical, that is leave with pay. People from neighbouring countries will love India for the service. Our relations through this people-to-people contact will give us great leverage in our official country-to-country contacts.
Indian doctors also will get global recognition. Indian doctors were the toast of America in the 1960's when the US desperately needed doctors. Then the US Medical lobby made it very difficult for outside doctors to get to work in USA. Indian IT professionals are the present high-flyers who bring fame to India. It is time Indian doctors reclaim their global fame. DOING Service can make that happen. It will give our doctors a global profile. Our surgeons already seem to be in great demand for life saving surgery. DOING Service will enhance their fame.
This in turn will help medical tourism to India. As it is, a lot of private sector hospitals in Chennai are filled with patients from Bangladesh, Pakistan and the middle East. In fact several hospitals have an adjoining lodging facility for relatives accompanying patients. This leads to a lot of money being spent in India beyond hospital expenses. Apart from earning foreign exchange the tourism will give visitors a better picture of India.
As an added benefit, young doctors in Indian hospitals will get increased opportunities while seniors are away since the 'sabbatical' option will be given only to doctors with some experience. However when the seniors are away, young doctors in the same hospital will get a chance to handle situations of greater responsibility. This will improve our hospital system.
In time, when the scheme becomes popular, the sabbatical to go abroad may be offered only to doctors who have already done such a sabbatical in Indian villages. This way we can pave the way for specialist doctors helping out in Indian villages. Most of all, DOING Service will bring back the spirit of service to the medical profession which seems to be lost in money making at present. It will make doctors noble all over again.
