Tamilnadu Muslims in Medical Field

Muslim Murasu, March 2011

Health care is one of the fundamental necessities of life. Chemical fertilizers rich in toxic content have crippled even sound healthy bodies. Organic manures and organic farming are now garnering attention.
3.5 percent reservation has yielded new medical graduates to Muslims in Tamilnadu. Doctors fare as staunch enemies for service mentality. Hindu and Christian spiritual leaders efficiently operate hospitals and medical colleges that benefit everyone. Tamilnadu Muslims who exhibit severe, extreme attitudes in religiosity have suffered major setback in medical field. Bringing the English doctors who enjoy luxurious life to public service is a serious challenge. Society is facing mammoth chronic failure. Funds to the tune of crores of rupees are being spent to individually run movements and organizations and preach. But there is no concerted medical help in Tamilnadu. Writers, speakers, intellectuals and educationists who have spent half a century time in serving Muslims are seeking Brahmin and Christian hospitals when their family members are diseased. One cannot remember even one doctor’s name or hospital that is well familiar. Operation cost of two lakh rupees makes it all the more painful for an average person. Muslim medical college in Tamilnadu is a long time dream. Four colleges are needed for forty lakh Muslims. As a first step, service groups should be identified. Society should be brought on board. List of people who offer medical help should be widely introduced through Islamic magazines and television. In today’s situation, to make do with the doctors who are madly after money is a futile job. There is no guarantee that the new free-of-cost hospitals and colleges that are established with investment of crores of rupees will show interest in service. Offsprings of Muslim VIPs garner MD and MS degrees in medicine and earn money. These people can be used for a day in a week for free medical counseling. Ground reality is that advices are only for others. Muslim philanthropists and social vanguards with government and political contact have made their family members degree holders in medicine. A white paper should be published in this regard. Community harvest has pleasantly yielded personal gains. But medical service has not happened. Doctors living luxurious life with extravagant marriage, palace house, costly car, come by as enemies to the society. Already a wealth of thirty thousand crore rupees is idling in minority educational institutions. Poor and middle class have not entered. The competence and qualification of life time member, working committee member and public committee members are guarded and kept as a secret. Only two factors are needed to offer medical help to the needy; doctors with service attitude and philanthropists with kind heart. There is severe scarcity for both. New lands, buildings and instruments are not going to help. One need not indulge in dreams.