The mob killing of Dr. Deben Dutta in Jorhat, Assam is a murder of the courage of every doctor in the country.
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A month ago, a shocking news reached the eyes of the entire country within a day. The news was from Jorhat in Assam. This is a scenic area of Assam full of tea plantations. Tea garden hospitals have been set up for the tea workers working here. Dr. Deben Dutta, 73, rendered lifelong service in this hospital. He continued his service at the Tea Garden Hospital even after retirement. At one such hospital, workers beat up a critically ill patient and killed him within hours. After this, the angry mob started beating him who would be seen in the hospital with the doctors. In this beating, the crowd attacked Dr. Deben Dutta's literal 'mob lynching' was a brutal massacre. The murder clip is so disgusting that even the director of a southern film will not show it in the film. The ambulance was not allowed to use the system that came to their rescue. Finally the CRPF. Calling the soldiers, Dr. Deben Dutta was released, but died on the way.
The last decade has seen the birth of a new disease called 'beating doctors'. Every month at least one such news comes from the media. So there should be at least one amount of arguments, abuse, beatings a day. Back at Kolkata Medical College, a resident doctor briefly survived the beating. Dr. Deben Dutta's death, however, culminated in this social unrest. What is special is that the media, the general public did not want to notice this. Nowhere is there much fuss about this.
One may not realize this and it may seem like an exaggeration but the death of a doctor in this way is like the 26/11 terrorist attack or the demolition of the Babri Masjid which changed the history of the country. The only difference is that all these incidents had obvious and immediate social repercussions and were reported. Dr. The hidden social consequences of Datta's unspoken doctor's death will be seen slowly and for many years to come.
The hospital is not a place to have fun like a movie theater. Everyone enters there basically reluctantly and blaming fate. Therefore, it is impossible for patients and their relatives to be one hundred percent satisfied. In the case of a critically ill patient, death is synonymous with treatment failure. But if we study today's social situation and the universal mentality, we will notice the changes that are taking place and are taking root. The last two decades have seen the rise of social media, the trend of traveling abroad for holidays, the tendency to break up with each other in politics, the heated discussions and many things that strengthen one's self-image. In the same period, two changes need to be reported in the medical field. One is whether this discovery can be passed on to others by assuming one's own responsibility for the disease, and the other is how can it be caused by death? This ego. Then the hospital was vandalized and beaten to reveal that he had avenged his departed relative by declaring that what had happened was just the doctor's fault. It is the anger of the system that we have not got our right to health care. But many of the attacks have taken place in well-treated and expensive hospitals.
There is no doubt that malpractices run rampant in hospitals and in the medical field. The medical field is not 100% ethical. But cut practices, affiliations with pharmaceutical companies have been formed in a non-medical society with other elements of the same society. Medical immorality cannot be supported by the involvement of others but it has to be understood that it is a part of the perverted vengeance of the society. All the revenge of some degree of fraud in the whole country. Are we going to take it from Deben Dutta? The scene is similar to that of Havildar Ishar Singh in the film Kesari, who assigns the task of watering the enemy and while doing so, is brutally chopped with a sword.
There was a lot of talk about how to do this and how to prevent it after the beatings. But now it seems that everything will stop with a deep social impact and the transition of a cycle of time. Because now specialist doctors are slowly moving away from super specialties. Many superspecialty seats that used to be incredibly crowded are becoming vacant this year. The next generation of those who have previously treated critically ill patients for safety reasons does not want a medical branch. If chosen, medical students now tend to choose relatively low-risk disciplines such as radiology and vitiligo. On the one hand, while the winds of entrepreneurship and start-ups are blowing everywhere, small and medium hospitals that provide good services in the medical field and also create employment are closing down.
Many doctors are pursuing this alternative profession with higher education or choosing a profession that is not life threatening. Some doctors prefer to close their own business and get a job in a corporate hospital. A corporate hospital is not like a hospital run by one or a few doctors. It is a business model. You can't go there and fight face to face with the owner. Strict security arrangements, bouncers are maintained in the corporate hospital with huge annual budget. By the way, many small hospitals are not affordable. International journals such as the Lancet have acknowledged that these medium and small hospitals in India provide excellent healthcare. But today, fear of attacks and shaky economic maths have made the condition of many hospitals similar to Cafe Coffee Day.
Although doctors like VG Siddhartha of Cafe Coffee Day are not committing personal suicide, their professional suicide is on a massive scale. There is talk of a recession everywhere, but no one is aware of the hidden recession, the lack of treatment in the health sector and, in fact, an alternative to expensive corporates. Eighty per cent of India's population has access to private healthcare, and no matter how expensive it may seem, it is still available. At the same time, it has become difficult for an honest doctor to balance the patient's expectations and his or her simple integrity.
Today, doctors are easily swayed by gossip and robbery. Even on the international stage, Prime Minister Modi joked about how doctors in India cheat. Today, the condition of doctors is not good for the society as a whole. Just as there is a need to rethink medical policies as a society, so too the people of the country must remember the limits of every profession. In a country where sympathetic thinking about hardened criminals is possible, doctors cannot be thought of. What our great nation India, the emerging economy of South Asia is going through today? That he was engrossed in the murder of a doctor. One of the teachings of the Voltaire philosopher is - 'What we owe to the dead is truth'.
Dr. Dutt's death is not just a death of conscience and discretion, it is a death of courage of every doctor in the country. It is the death of a skill that works day and night in the treatment of serious illnesses. The desire to make your intelligent child a doctor in the future is the death of aspirations. We have to accept the fact that the situation in our understanding today is so irrational. In addition, Dr. What will you understand Datta?
Ian Rand's rationalism is the lifeblood of teaching rationalism to the world. Her novel 'Atlas Shrugged' has pierced the thinking of thousands of years. It tells how the world will be on the brink of destruction if the world's skilled and intelligent go on strike. This book was written by Dr. Everyone should read it as an atonement for Datta's murder. In the womb of this doctor's death, there may be a more horrible reality than any such idea. There is only one possible way and bleak opportunity to avoid such incidents. To hold the breath of conscience and distinction.
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