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The Medical Linchpin
Our standard bearers of the credo of Florence Nightingale are angry. If it is a religion with the nurses to take care of an ailing person, it behoves the rest of the society to take proper care of them. Practising physicians may not all of them be shining examples of the Hippocratic tradition. And nurses, by the same token, may not always remind one of the Lady with the Lamp — what with gaps tn their training and what with the crippling influences of all-round corruption and lack of a sense of duty. But there can be no question about the supreme importance of the service the nurses render It is times like when they are angry, which is not often, the nation wakes up to the value of their service and. rather than comforting them, hold them responsible for mindless cruelty to the thousands of suffering inpatients of all medicare establishments. This is rather a silly thing to do Repeated performance of such antics only promoted tension among the different classes of hospital staff and. Instead of raising the nurses’ image In the eyes of the society at large, has compromised their rightful claims to a better deal from their employers — mainly the government.
It will be very difficult to fault the striking nurses thjs time They have been very visibly moving the government by a series of graduated demonstrations starting from September 8. The government's failure to address the problem In whatever manner speaks of a deliberate attempt not to recognize the problem. This Is not at all helpful to any quarter — the patients, the nurses and most of all the government itself. In sharp contrast to'thls foolish attitude, the nurses In action have been very particular in maintaining emergency rtjre service cells.
It is interesting that most of the fourteen demands — specially those displayed by the media, relate to questions of financial import. And some newspapers have already written to imply that it is not so much a baby of the Health Minister as it is of Mr Salfur Rahman. When he returns from his foreign trip, results would follow. The hospital system of treating the diseased and the Invalid Is a wholly Western development. In the West too. nurses are notorious as a section making the most grumbling. But their point there centres on due recognition of their actual situation in the system which is nothing if not central. The fight is there for getting a berth of equal height and importance to that of the doctors. And in this nurses in the hospitals of the West have achieved remarkable, in fact, unbelievable victories.
In the current nurses strike, given a democratic government's ultimate commitment to the good of the people, there is no reason why many of the demands would not be accepted up to a great length. But will these financial gains help improve the nurses position either in the hospitals or in the society? Perhaps, pressed as they are to an unenviable stratum in the hierarchical pyramid of the hospitals, time hasn't yet come for them to be squeamish about honour and dignity. Cannot we. who benefit from their services but do not repay with the right kind of thanks, take the unsolicited steps of moving for unstinted honour and dignity to their calling? It is in enlightened self-interest that we plead lor a better place for the nurses in the hospital administration. They are the prime mover of the juggernaut with the most intricate innards possible commonly known as hospitals. The government will be well-advised to shape the nurses into an army of dedicated workers with a high degree of Jobsatisfaction. They wouldn't need to regret that ever.
Lewis Thomas, the great writer on the life sciences, and a great research physician and health service boss to boot, made a thorough study of the nurse s situation in his autobiographical tome — The Youngest Science. The bottomline of his wisdom in the matter was that if the nurses wanted the moon, he would still be on their side