Water and Biodiversity: ‘Water shortage will become crisis if steps not taken now’
Speakers at a seminar stress the need for water conservation.
Auf wiedersehen Pakistan: HEC needs funds to continue foreign scholarships scheme
German ambassador addresses students set for education in Germany.
Epidemic: 23,040 children given anti-measles vaccine
431 cases reported from Bahawalpur district since January.
Metro Bus: Drivers protest against poor working conditions
Demand cold drinking water, proper waiting area at bus depot.
MQM leadership: Stay order sought on Altaf’s speeches
LHC judge seeks reply from PTA, federal government.
Premiere: Not reluctant to say this film is great
Mohsin Hamid excited to see his novel come to big screen in Pakistan.
Ring Road: Collapsed bridge had been declared dangerous
Engineers told NLC to take down cracked beam.
Nawaz nominates Shahbaz for CM Punjab slot
Shahbaz had served as Punjab CM in the last government.
Consumer court: Shoe shop sued for selling ‘defective goods’
The petitioner was offered a new handbag to replace the damaged one, but he did not accept it, says defendant.
Hajj policy: LHC seeks report from ministry
Hajj quota should only be allocated to well-reputed tour operators, says CJ.
the govt. spends millions of the pakistani taxpayers money on educating these medical students out of the nation’s tax revenues,then when these free riders become docotors at the public’s expense,they run away to foreign lands in the greed of dollars & riyals.the govt should make all medical education private.Recommend
a big tragedy of our times is that our female students get admissions & then get mbbs degrees only so they can land a better husband.they have no interest or determination to work as doctors after their mbbs.they waste the public’s money on getting a better rishta.
ladies you don’t need an MBBS degree to know how to make aloo gosth.
if you’re not gonna work,then let some other person get admission & let them atleast contribute to society,not waste their education gotten out of the taxpayer’s money.
Hats off to any of our female mbbs graduates who go on to practise medicine,get further education rather than spend the rest of their lives just as babyproducing machines.Recommend
Surely government salaries are not the only reason (or even the most common reason) for doctor flight. When so few doctors work for the government, whether the governmet raises their salaries or not, really should not make a difference to the overall salaries of doctors. Besides most government doctors do private practice anyways.
I suspect the real reason here is the income disparity between foriegn markets and Pakistan. Markets such as Saudi and Middle East can afford to pay more for top notch Pakistani doctors, so they go. I really doubt if most doctors can qualify to go to these places.
Mr. Amjad Islam is right, if the government invests so much in the making of doctors, then it should have the right to enforce that they stay and serve. But for that it will need to have a plan for using their services (while paying decent wages and facilities) and to prevent their flight before their dues are paid. Is there such a plan?Recommend
I agree the government should firstly offer decent salaris and benefits, and secondly should come up with a way to ensure that doctors stay for at least a set period of time. Recommend
We give so much value to killing people, thus justifying massive defence expenditure. But when it comes to nurturing people (teachers) or saving their lives and keeping them healthy (doctors) our value system seems to deem them third best. Why?Recommend
Government should not play havoc with doctors and should not create hurdles for higher education as wellRecommend