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Doctors, just as women, are given the status of God in our country yet we fail to treat them as such. Govt having no data on those dead due to COVID is appalling!
As if the rising number of corona virus cases weren’t representative enough of the sad state of public health affairs in our country, our government went on to announce that they don’t have any data number of deaths in migrant workers.
While this itself should be quite alarming, many said that it is impossible to track the movement of so many people.
Recently however, the government made yet another fact public. That they don’t have any data on the number of healthcare workers infected and dead due to COVID-19.
The Indian Medical Association has strongly condemned such negligent behaviour towards our healthcare workers and provided the necessary details.
Our country is leading in the number of healthcare worker deaths. IMA’s demand to declare them as martyrs is yet again to fall on deaf ears. While the whole world is commemorating their doctors and treating them as national heroes, it’s appalling to even imagine how little we as a nation care about them.
To become a doctor in today’s age one needs to be at the grind relentlessly, spend many sleepless nights, spend gruelling years in college and graduate with a mountain of debt. And if you thought all your problems would resolve on graduating, you cannot be more wrong. Fresh graduates are usually paid a meagre salary and made to work to the bone.
If you decide to escape this and go for a post graduation, you’re in for another ride. When all your peers would have ‘settled’, you would still be borrowing money from your parents to pay for your post graduation. After which you would be under immense debt and would need to work hard to pay it off.
It is a career with no room for mistake, a tiny mistake would cause you to lose your license and all your hard work could go down the drain.
Time and again we have seen doctors been assaulted, they have always been society’s soft targets. They are some of the brightest brains of the country, being treated so horribly. If they protest, they are quickly assuaged to continue service. Even after such disrespect, they step up and save our lives whenever a problem arises.
Not just doctors – nurses, Asha workers and other healthcare providers have risked their life everyday while we were locked up in our homes. We have stigmatised them in our neighbourhood instead of honouring them. Remember the case in Chennai, where a doctor was refused burial? We are even denying them dignity in death.
Doctors, just as women, are given the status of God in our country yet we fail to treat them as such. Maybe next time instead of banging our plates from our balconies we can actually respect them.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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