Comments on: UP – a land where sweepers, ward boys and drivers play doctor

By: DSingh

DSingh — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:32:58 +0000

Agree with you 100% In fact delegation of suitable task is very part of a work culture.

By: DSingh

DSingh — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:30:20 +0000

I am postgraduate doctor from UP and now settled in UK. I am deeply ashamed by the class conciousness and aristocratic mentality of the readers and media. All of you think that sweeper is something below human and does not possess any skills -you can’t be more wrong. learning how to stich a wound is not rocket science and any human being can learn that. This great person (who is sweeper by occupation in that hospital) have learned this skill in much the same way as a medical student would have. Grow up Indians and give all professions equal respect. In essence, all doctors are sweepers, they clean wounds of debris, pus and make it look good.

By: krsna

krsna — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:08:05 +0000

@kundan: you are so right , under the able supervision of doctors these uneducated , infected guys can also be made to do simple operations, then when they become experts in that , they can be promoted to do other complex operations ..after all whats the big deal about operations , just cut some nerves , organs & stitch it up.. i dont understand why india is wasting crores of money in medical colleges , just learn like the sweepers & drivers

By: krsna

krsna — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:03:31 +0000

Seems you should try to get treated here after fully knowing your post operative care is being done by uneducated , infected sweepers , cleaners ..

By: baka

baka — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:15:08 +0000

yes, this will keep happening when the “So called Chief Minister AK YADAV” would have his MLA’s buying CARS and Trucks but not doing anythig for the Hospitals … Good Job AK ..

By: RITWIKA DAS

RITWIKA DAS — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:46:02 +0000

Who is to blame for this situation -ward boy/driver/sweeper who have stiched the wound/gave injection in the hospital. In my opinion they should be rewarded instead of sacking from the service. This hue and cry about the situation is being engineered by influential DOCTORs lobby.because if these people continue with the stiching the wound and giving injection then they will be expert after some time and people will prefer to go to the ward boy instead of so called professional doctors. This way the doctors will loose their importance. Instead of making hue and cry please go to a remote village in any state and you will find the stitches/allopthic medicines are being given by person who has no link with the medical science.and people are being cured. This is INDIA. Then why punish that poor ward boy ! He should be given REWARDS

By: pk

pk — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:12:18 +0000

Hardly nay difference. Doctors are from quota and ward boy doing their job. When system is like this.

By: Hina

Hina — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:59:23 +0000

UP need more hospitals and staff with full surety of 24 hrs electric supply. Power generation is top of all even roads and others goes later.

By: Vinod Kamboj

Vinod Kamboj — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:00:45 +0000

there should be more hospitals with better infrastructure, which our politicians never support. what else do you expect from understaffed hospitals and overworked doctors? a doctor in a govt emergency attends to roughly 10 cases in an hour, with frequent night duties. whenever doctors go on strike, media tries to dilute it by publishing articles about suffering patients. anyhow, you should better complain to authorities rather than employees.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:47:33 +0000

That is why all UP walas come to Mumbai for treatment & living.