Catholic Church is the single largest group providing healthcare in India, after the Government. 85 percent of rural health care is provided by the Church.
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Msgr. Alex Vadakkumthala
Vicar General Archdiocese of Verapoly& Project Director, CBCI Society, Medical Education. |
No hospital management can be forgiven for not paying just wages to its nursing staff. It is a basic requirement demanded even from missionary and charitable Health care institutions. At the same time, nurses cannot engage in protests absenting themselves from essential services, days together. Their is a profession that deals with human life. When they leave critical patients uncared for, they are failing very seriously in their professional commitment. They must find better ways to demand their rights than by extended strikes. Our country still has to learn to respect the dignity of all kinds of labour. Then only disproportionate salary variation between doctors and nurses will cease to exit. Bond period is essential for nurses, because their blunders can affect life seriously. Nursing is basically a caring profession and boys who opt for it should really do so only if they have an aptitude and goodwill to serve with gentle love. Church cannot shy away from giving the best medical care. In this process we should not be guided by profit but purely by our concern for human persons. That will help us to guard ourselves from temptation of competition for profit.
Source : Smart Companion - National Monthly for Christian Leadership
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