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| Azad rendezvous with docs in US sans Dr Fayaz Shawl! | | |
ABID SHAH
EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, June 27: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has been on a week-long visit to America. Among other things wooing back Indian doctors in US for at least sharing expertise and resources with their homeland has been high on his agenda.
Yet, when this is looked at in the backdrop of recent row which has sent back famed cardiologist Dr Fayaz Shawl to Washington, abandoning a 50-bed cardio-thoracic health facility that he intended to build at his birthplace Srinagar, little hope is left in such Government moves.
This is more so since for one reason or the other, they seldom bear fruits. Back home rampant red tape and bureaucratic bottlenecks are blamed for keeping some of the best Indian professionals confined to their workplaces in distant lands and climes.
Dr Fayaz's case is exactly the same. According to reports, first he was welcomed with open arms in Delhi and Srinagar and when his dream project of building a hospital at Srinagar got underway, Kashmir's Ministry of Housing and Urban Development raised objections.
A State Minister, Nisar Wani, expressed the view that Dr Fayaz's Hospital contravened the master plan for Srinagar. The State Government, however, offered a few alternatives, but the US-based doctor got so miffed as to quail back to Washington in what looks like to be for ever.
And since he is reputed to treat Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair besides others, the row reached the office of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. When Azad went to Washington to meet the US Secretary of Health Kathleen Selebius, a meeting of the visiting Minister with US-based Indian medical professions was slated among his other engagements.
The Union Ministry of Health issued a Press statement here on Saturday, calling among other things Azad's meeting with Indian doctors in US as well attended and highly successful.
Yet, it is not known whether this included Srinagar-born-and-trained (upto-MBBS), Dr Fayaz Shawl, as well or not. In any case the return of the US-based doctor after calling off his Srinagar project is going to deter peers from following suit. More so, if this is left unresolved, no matter how vociferously the Government touts to woo back talent.
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