VILLAGE DOCTOR

Our villages are not like the towns. Nor is a village doctor like his town colleagues. They may have the some qualifications obtained from the same constitution, but the very nature of their works. The people they treat and the environment in which they work make the village doctor very different from those who practice in towns.

A village doctor is a private practitioner. There are Government doctors in the Thana health complexes who cannot be called village  doctors, because they are like other Government officers who live in the country because they have posted there. A village doctor has chosen to be in the village. He live there like an inhabitant. You can call him a villager. HE has no hospital, he has examines his patient in his own chamber, and visits them when required to do so.

 

His dispensary is not. Generally he sits in a tin-shed room whit an admiral, a chair, a table and a bench, he  sits on the chair and he patients on the bench. He has very few medicines in his stock. He has no compounder in the dispensary for his help.

A village doctor is not a specialist. May he live in a village, he does not get the opportunity to develop himself professionally, but that does not diminish his usefulness. He is not public servant but a real servant of the public. He knows his social. For they lack proper food and nutrition. He can, therefore treat them like a friend and a neighbor. The village doctor is always available for consultation and call. BECAUSE he is an enlightened man. His chamber is also a centre of culture where people meet for discussion of local national and international affairs.

A village doctor is an invitation. He should be given proper honor. It is the interest of the villages that government should give him an allowance in recognition of the very necessary work he has been doing in the villages.