Foreign physicians needed
It is a very good decision that the Ministry of Health has given permission to foreign physicians for private practice in our country. I think we can save our valuable foreign exchange as we do not have to go abroad for medical treatment. Ninety per cent of our physicians who work as government servants are attached to medical college hospitals and district level hospitals. They have to take classes at the medical college and have to attend patients. They have to experiment on different subjects and also serve in private clinics as part time practitioners. In these cases they find it very difficult to develop proper treatment standards.
Thus we are deprived of good and proper medical services. That explains why hundreds of people go abroad for better medical treatment. All of them are not rich people. Middle class people are also going abroad for proper and better medicare. So we need good physicians from foreign countries to fill up the gap.
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