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Sagar Watch: Opinion
Education Consultant, Column Writer
🩺 “Doctor Wanted (But Only If You Fit the Caste Setting)”
Welcome to the grand circus of Indian healthcare, where:
- Hospitals don’t have doctors,
- Vacancies can’t be filled,
- Patients wait endlessly,
And the government proudly says:
“Reservation hai toh sab possible hai… except healthcare!”
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🎭 Act 1: The AIIMS Patna Tragedy (Also a Comedy)
AIIMS Patna recently advertised *103 Senior Resident posts.
Guess how many were reserved?
👉 72 seats.
Yes, seventy-two. Sattar + Do.
The general category got… 31 seats.
And the best part?
A big chunk of reserved seats had ZERO eligible applicants. ZERO.
But still, general category doctors can’t apply.
Why?
Because
rules (is Greater Than) > patients.
Quota(is Greater Than) > quality.
Politics (is Greater Than)> human lives.
India loves logic… but only in speeches.
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🎭 Act 2: Where Are the Doctors? Oh, They’re Waiting Outside the Quota Gate
India needs 5 lakh more doctors right now.
But thanks to “super-flexible reservation rules,” many seats stay empty:
AIIMS institutions are showing massive reserved-seat vacancies
Translation for the common public:
“Doctor nahi milenge, par quota mil jayega.”
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🎭 Act 3: The Great Indian Coaching Scam (A.K.A The General Category Life Story)
General category students:
Spend ₹8–15 lakh* in coaching
Study 14 hours a day*
Lose sleep, hair, and social life
Compete for the leftover crumbs of seats
Meanwhile:
Vacant reserved seats sit quietly like empty chairs in a wedding tent, waiting for guests who never arrive.
But can the hardworking student sitting outside enter?
NO. Because he is born without reservation.”
This is equal opportunity in India:
“You do the effort, others take the seat (if they show up).”
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🎭 Act 4: Medical Merit? Sorry, Try Again Next Century
Let’s be brutally honest:
Doctors are not hired
to fill a caste spreadsheet.
They are hired because
We don’t want them mixing paracetamol with phenyl by “mistake.”
If minimum standards are relaxed,
If empty posts cannot be filled,
If departments run without specialists—
Patients don’t die because of caste.
They die because of policy.
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🌍 Act 5: Looking at Other Countries (Where Logic Still Exists)
The
The Supreme Court banned race-based preferences in 2023.
Merit wins.
No identity quotas in the medical fields.
Support the poor, not castes.
Minimum standards NEVER lowered.
India:
“Hold my chai. I will experiment with my entire population.”
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🎭 Act 6: The Real Victim Isn’t a Category — It’s the Patient
In the end:
- A woman in labour doesn’t ask for a “reserved gynaecologist.”
- A heart attack patient doesn’t ask for “representation.”
- A cancer patient doesn’t care about caste.
They care about ONE thing:
Is there a doctor in the hospital?
Or just a reservation chart on the wall?
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🎯The Satirical Moral of the Story
India doesn’t lack talent.
India doesn’t lack students.
India doesn’t even lack medical seats.
India lacks common sense.
We have turned a life-saving profession into a caste-balance puzzle, where:
- Seats remain empty
- Hospitals remain understaffed
- Patients remain untreated
- And politicians remain very, very happy
Because
votes (is Greater Than)> lives.
Always.
🩸 If We Don’t Fix This Now, We’ll Need a Reservation Even for Survival
Reservation was meant as a hand-up,
But it has become a handbrake on the healthcare system.
The solution isn’t removing the reservation.
The solution is removing rigidity:
✔ Unfilled seats MUST go to the general category
✔ Minimum standards cannot be diluted
✔ Support must be educational, not caste-based
✔ Quality(is Greater Than) > Quantity (is Greater Than)> Politics
Until then, brace yourself, India.
Hospitals may soon run like this:
“Doctor on duty: Not available.
But the reservation list is available 24/7.”
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