The Marathi Issue: 2

It is indeed commendable that in this Marathi state, the doctors in hospitals are required to know Marathi so that they can understand their patients and their patients can understand them well. That would ensure proper communication between them so that the treatment would be satisfactory. It must be with this in mind that the politicians and administrators have insisted on employing only those who have passed SSC with higher Marathi. But what beats me is that we take resident doctors from all over the country without any such prerequisite. They do not have any knowledge of Marathi. Resident doctors are the first line of doctors treating the patients. In the emergency hours they are the only doctors who primarily treat patients. There are Assistant Professors too, but they are not present to act as interpreters for the residents. They function only to manage high risk cases and to operate or supervise operations performed by the resident doctors. The resident doctors are selected for the job based on their common entrance test score, and that exam has no questions on Marathi. Have the politicians and the DMER not realized this issue?