Todays Traitors , Tomorrow Heroes - YDA

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ( JFK)

YDA : this three letter word has become one of the most condemned word among masses today. People talk endlessly about the indifference of these brutal YOUNG DOCTORS who for  their own petty goals left suffering mankind to die in misery and finally they met their much deserved fate . The recent crackdown of police on these terrorists have solved this issue once and for all and they have been rightfully tortured , arrested and put to comatose states after torture.Now the civil societies , good governance and law enforcement agencies have uprooted this EVIL from the bud so there will be best health care at door steps of everyone and tomorrow a new day when things will be perfect . 

But thats not my story , my story dates back a few years ago.

A young graduate of the prestigious institute , full of passion and devotion , had a strength to change the system and courage to undo the wrong. Having stamina of 48 hours straight floor emergency and post emergency shift in a tertiary care hospital and one fine day realized my  zeal has ended and there is a bitter thing called reality which is not as pleasant as my dreams are , did not realize I was not paid for my job .I had no future , no fortune , no respect and beyond that no plan . I realized how much looser I was and failure indeed. Then everyone started talking about new ideas how we can go out get foreign qualifications , save ourselves and include ourselves among the RESPECTABLE part of society . I was among the coward one , struggled for 5 years after graduation still unpaid and unworthy , left my country because these years taught me something .. If you want to change the system , the system will change you one day . I left to never look back . 

But there were few visionary , who still had faith , who foresee the fact that 2200 doctors leave for middle east alone in a year will leave the system crippled for generations to come. Like energy crisis , we did read for years that we might need new dams or else we would have crisis and no one botherd because at that time there was  enough energy for everyone but now we have been put in the darkness of despair. These visionaries realized we cannot save this profession unless we save the executing agencies : The Doctors .. That was the birth of YDA .Then strikes became routine and promises were made and broken , weeks became months and months became years. At one side tyrants  with their lies and weapon of treachery and fear and on other side the doctors . And it is public who took the front blow, many patients were suffered , misery prevailed . Govt. refused to listen to the demands of the cream of Nation and projected them as terrorist responsible for everything from lack of facilities in hospital to poisoned medications normally dispensed in hospitals . The Govt. was happy because this situation was giving them sympathy vote . Because now for the first time they could  label someone else for the misery of people so best policy was never to appoint a dedicated Health Minister and never listen to them rather linger on and fuel the dispute so they can have benefits from the row. Patients suffered a lot , although Emergency dept. was never closed and so did the Indoor but OPD strike was projected so much that Govt. succeeded in winning the public and media support on this issue and then Punjab Govt. did what tyrants and brutes have been doing for centuries , attacked the weaker ones in the dark inside the safety of four walls.

                    I congratulate Punjab Govt. and masses for this phenomenon success and now this so called cream of 

Nation has learnt a lesson . 

But there is a problem with these beautiful minds , they have never learnt to quit . They did not quit when they were in school , they never quit when they worked hard beyond human endurance , they did not quit when they had to work and still working without any monetary gains. They are not fighting for themselves , they are not using patients as a collateral damage , they are not raising slogans for some hidden agenda or political party . They are doing for the soul of profession which will lead to a system which can serve the suffering mankind in a better way . A system where young doctors don't leave the country due to despair but serve the motherland with the much expected devotion . A system where Govt. never gives license to poisoned medications , system where every patient has an access to the trained physician equipped with experience and dignity. A system where health and life is far most important object of society where life is precious and beautiful . 

LONG LIVE YDA    -- Dedicated to my Friend Dr Naeem Ameen who is fighting with his life after police torture