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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will face industrial unrest. Currently, the country is facing famine and, therefore, high food prices. We have got a water crisis and we will have an energy crisis. I am sorry to say that we will have industrial unrest among the medical workers, because of the fact that we have not factored any money for their arrears or increase their income. Whenever we talk about doctors or nurses earning more money, people say that they are the same as other public officers. They are not! That is why when you select somebody to go to a medical school, you select the âtopâ. So, they are not like other public officers. Having been a medical student and teacher at the medical school, I do understand what they go through before they become doctors. I think they have got a masochistic kind of make-up that even after that, they still go back for post-graduate studies knowing very well that they will earn peanuts. It is a misplaced sense of patriotism that the Government has refused to recognise. Remote areas do not have adequate personnel because nobody wants to go there. Unless we do something about the salaries of nurses, doctors, clinical officers and physiotherapists we will not have enough of them in the remote areas. We should improve their salaries. They should not beg for it. The Government should increase their salaries because they are the cream. Whether you hate or like them, they are the best you have got and you have to pay them for it. I think that is one area that has been neglected for too long that it is hurting our medical services. This has made the best medical personnel to remain in urban centres and refuse to go to the rural areas where the majority of the population lives in the rural areas. It is important that we look into this matter carefully."
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