Shaky Doctors Uncurling to Serve in Tea Estates

Parents send their Children to school with great expectations. When the children become conversant with the three R's, they become happy beyond measure. As the children grow and cross their adolescent period, their merits keep on unfolding. After Higher Secondary when some of them exercise their choice for a particular course and once they are instrumental in getting admission in the specific course their happiness knows no bounds. Obviously some of these students study medical science to become a specialist doctor. So, to study medical science to become a doctor a very strenuous career is required. That apart, quite a good amount of expenditure is required for such a thorough course. After completing M.B.B.S many of them obtain their postgraduation degree in their subject of choice .But for that an extra ordinarily good result is a must. There after they join their respective departments. Some of them join the Tea Estates. In the wake of the murder of Dr. Deben Dutta who joined Teok Tea Estate as septuagenarian after his retirement after a chequered career in the state government. No doctor is willing to serve in the Tea Estate without adequate security. We may refer the news item published in the front page of your esteemed daily, under the caption, ‘No Doctors in 50 per cent tea gardens : Managements seek Dispur’s help’( The sentinel, October 1,2019). This happened after the brutal killing of Dr. Deben Dutta by a group of unruly labourers. Nowadays, it is a common news that more often than not doctors are manhandled in nursing homes, in hospitals and in tea gardens. Despite prevalent of a law, many people take the law in their own hands with impunity.

Ashok Bordoloi,

Dibrugarh.