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Dear Residents
I am currently not in Kerala and was shocked and dismayed reading your
mail. I can fully empathize with your disappointment that you do not
get he privileges that residents at AIIMS and and PGI get and also the
financial demands that you all face, like all of us who have stayed
from the lure of highly lucrative jobs to work in a place like SCT
which we respect and admire and serve.
All of us have gone through residency days and through lots of
hardships and have felt that no one else works as much as residents.
After these few years of struggle you will also be in the position of
consultants and realize that at that level it is not hard long hours
in the ward, but a different kind of responsibility that you handle
and for that the remuneration as a full time job is different.
I have always maintained that patient care and academic atmosphere of
any dept is only as good as its residents and their committment and
have always strived to drive home this point, at my own personal
peril. No one denies that you all form the core around which hospital
services revolve, and that should be recognized and appreciated when
it meets the high standards that are expected.
It is true that SCt isnt like PGI or AIIMS which are fully funded by
the govt. Things work differerently and there are means of getting
your grievances heard and this is not something that one can solve in
a day. You can put in your representation and take it up once again
and through proper channels and all of us faculty will support your
cause.
It is not advisable to bring bad reputation to this institute by
thoughtless actions taken in the heat of the moment. It takes years of
hard work of a a lot of people to build a good reputation and just a
day to ruin it all. You all will leave in pursuit of your lives but
many of us continue to work here and will have to live with the
damages done over something that can be resoved in better ways. You
all could have approached the heads of depts, dean etc and discussed
before resorting to this extreme measure of maligning an institute and
its highest position.
I request that the residents meet with their HODs, discuss the issue
and resolve it in a better way. Character assasination and mud
slinging have a way of coming back to haunt us, if it isnt done for
the right cause.
There are better ways of problem solving and so please calm your
nerves and sit down with senior faculty and get your grievances
represented to the DST.
Wish you all good luck. I just hope the damages that have been wreaked
until now will not affect the prestige of teh institute or the
rightful cause that you have undertaken. Good luck and assuring all
support.

Asha Kishore