Discrimination against healthcare providers even during the covid epidemic

Healthcare providers faced such discrimination even during the epidemic. Can they expect to receive acknowledgement for their work in this situation? The Indian healthcare system survives on human cattle farming which is a monopoly of the hospitals, over the medics and paramedics.

In India a physician finds difficulty running a practice due to clinical establishment act and violence against healthcare providers, a nurse cannot work as a nurse practitioner even for basic stuff such as first aid in her community, or a technician  cannot run a basic lab even in an underserved area. But, a manager receives subsidized prime land in a metro city for a corporate hospital, receives tax benefits in the form of corporate social responsibility, and employs all three at the least possible salaries, with no caps on work hours.

There is a general feeling that doctors are reluctant to serve in underserved areas, and that there is a shortage of medical professionals in the country. However, we all know through general experience, that the actual number of health professionals has actually gone up due to the boom in the private medical educational institutions in the last three decades. However, it is also right that number of doctors serving in metropolitan cities are far more in comparison to remote areas, as per population ratio. Interpreting this as a shortage of medical professionals would not be correct. This is actually a scarcity of health professionals, where, only people who can afford treatment can get it. This problem is not limited to doctors, but also to nurses and medical technicians. Often, these professionals come from underprivileged or remote areas and due to their inability to function outside the hospitals have no choice but to stay away from their hometown and serve in cities.

This can be easily amended by allowing nurses to work as nurse practitioners, and technicians to run basic labs,  providing land and tax subsidies, and reducing administrative requirements, in underserved areas.

The result is that despite the latest technology, increased access to healthcare, and more purchasing power, the burden of disease today in the community is also higher.