NONE can support the means that the striking doctors of the BIRDEM hospital have resorted to for realising their demand of extension of work contracts or making their jobs permanent. But none would also support the hospital authorities for adopting a course that has virtually forced the angry doctors to exercise the bad option of going on a wildcat work stoppage. How could they adopt the western practice of appointing young physicians on contract year after year in this country where job opportunities are limited and one cannot find out a new job every now and then?
Appointments of young physicians on recurrent contracts with no job security in a poor country like ours can only cause them to have constant worries and anxiety about their future. It means, while performing their duties they are unlikely to be able to devote themselves to the serious job of healing. In other words, such an improper organisational management practice creates the ground when patients cannot get the best of service.
Besides, the loss of experienced hands due to non-renewal of contracts also means that the institution remains handicapped due to a chronic shortage of ability built upon experiences among its physicians. One has to wonder how could BIRDEM, in spite of being a non-commercial welfare-oriented humanitarian organisation, adopt this defective employment policy without thinking deeply over its adverse impact upon patients.
Diabetes is a serious disease and the number of patients afflicted with it is rising alarmingly in this country. Did the BIRDEM authorities at all think about its likely adverse impact before introducing the defective policy to regulate employment of young doctors? We are appalled by their apparent lack of wisdom and foresight.
A victim
Shahbagh
Dhaka
Overlooked rights of BIRDEM doctors
FE Team | Published: June 29, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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