Docs struggle to get decent salaries: CJI

NEW DELHI: Hailing the role of medical practitioners particularly when the world is facing the Covid pandemic, Chief Justice of India N V Ramana said that doctors are living gods and goddesses. “No other professional is capable of rendering the services as valuable as those offered by doctors,” Justice Ramana.


The CJI said governments not giving priority to the medical sector and its problems, such as insufficient number of professionals and infrastructure, are “issues of immediate concern” as he lamented that doctors are attacked on duty for someone else’s failure. The CJI rued that doctors struggle to get decent salaries even after eight to nine years of rigorous learning and fail to start a decent hospital of their own and survive. The CJI said thousands of physically and emotionally vulnerable patients were isolated in their hospital wards while being treated for the Covid-19 infection and it was only the doctors who kept the hope alive even in times of despair.

“Unless you see them working personally, you cannot visualise the discomfort of being in PPE kits non-stop for 24 hours in day and some time even for days together with no rest, proper food,” he said