Today we hail our health professionals, men and women with healing hands and caring hearts, to keep our nerves steady and our hearts throbbing. They are our healing ministers who strive to keep us alive a few moments more on this planet.
We celebrate in India the National Doctor’ s Day today. A day set apart in memory of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy of West Begal. Renowned doctor and second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Roy Dedicated his life to serving and healing countless persons. While serving as West Bengal’s Chief Minister for 14 years, Dr. Roy made invaluable contributions to the state’s social welfare and healthcare systems. He advocated universal health care access to reach out to the common people. He established several hospitals and medical colleges and promoted preventive health care projects.
Reports say that, by 2022, there were 13,08,009 allopathic doctors registered with State Medical Councils and the National Medical Commission. This included 5.65 lakh AYUSH doctors. The doctor-population ratio in the country at the time was1:834.
By January 2021, there were approximately 312 thousand homeopathy doctors across India.
There were 565,000 Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathic doctors, as Mansukh Mandaviya, Union minister of health and family welfare told the Rajya Sabha on April 5, 2022.
In addition, there are numerous traditional healers and herbal practitioners who may not have received recognition by the government.
We thank the doctor fraternity for their noble service and commitment for a cause. We wish them good physical and mental health and peaceful environment for functioning.
At the same time, we would expect the doctors not to indulge in illegal practices such as organ selling, keeping presumably dead patients on ventilators, prescribing unnecessary and costly medications , connivance with medical labs and service centres, killing children through abortion, and the like. Let no patient be turned back for lack of adequate finance.
Dear doctors, march on; let your hearts be pure just as your blades are sharp.
The world will honour you for what you are worth. Stay blessed!
Snippet: When Dr. Akshay Kumar Roy in Dumka, Jharkhand, passed away, the common people wailed and could not understand how such a nice doctor, who healed the sick and performed miracles, could die. The Santals used to call him Okoe Doctor, twisting Akshay into Okoe. His caring words and soothing approach not only eased the nerves of his patients, but a good percentage of illness had disappeared with his initial approach. May his tribe increase!