Call to check flight of medicos

[News]

Students of medical science today expressed concern about the tendency of medical professionals of going abroad in search of better opportunities. A mechanism should be devised to arrest the drain of medical professionals, which is on the rise, they said.

Representative of the student chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nepal (PSRN) said almost 50 per cent medical students go abroad soon after completing their course. This has created a dearth of medical professionals in the country, Giri said at a seminar on ‘Migration of Human Resources for Health’, organised by the PSRN. “The nation is investing its resources to produce medical professions, but it has not been able to make use of these professionals,” Giri said.

Hospitals and health centres in the country are facing a shortage of medical professions, depriving thousands of people of health services, Giri said.
He said most of his peers are unwilling to practice in the country because they do not get facilities that they could get in developed countries.
He said the government must come up with a plan to address this.

Although the World Health Organisation has said 200 doctors are needed for per 100,000 population, a recent government survey has shown that merely 85 doctors are available in the country for 100,000 people.

Prof Dr Ramesh Kanta Adhikari, former dean of the Institute of Medicine, said low salary, insufficient opportunities, lack of opportunities to hone skills and political condition of the country have been pushing medical professionals out of the country. Their dreams turn into reality in foreign land, he said.

The government must set up some mechanisms to bind fresh graduates to work in the country for at least two years and provide opportunities for higher studies to those who have worked in the country.

Agreeing upon the need to check the drain, Dr Sharad Onta, member-secretary of the Nepal Health Research Council, said medical professionals should also realise that it is their duty to serve the country. - Source

[Noha]

Its good that discussion is going on and it has been seen that those who speaks (young generation) about serving in the country and living for the rest of life they tends to go abroad sooner then their contemporary pals as they know many ways to get in.

So, lets see how many of them stay in Nepal who boost themselves a real patriot

One should read this "How do we reverse the Brain Drain"

[prit_1001]

everything is politics.......who does not want to stay with their parents,relatives & frens and work but the government and the sitiuation running these days would possibly not allow us to do that and we are forced to go out for search for better oppurtunities and make our parents comfortable.....any many things....

[agrawalkris]

What Dr.Rama kant Adhikary says is right.It is not only the fault of the docs who are goin out.U must be knowing many docs who were planning to live in NEPAL serve and due to Beaurocracy they are now planning to LEAVE.
I know two of them like that.

people are going for a better degree and good money,but this is not the only fact.There are people who go for various reasons and why we are looking on DOCS only,there a whole group of youngsters who are heading for US and other developed countries.

The desire to stay in own land will not come the force which GOVT. may implement but it has to come from oneself and to bring that it is a lot of things that matter.

IT IS BEAUROCRACY