Many PAP supporters have labelled Temasek Review Emeritus and its readers as a boisterous band of hooligan just out to criticise the government.
It's probably because they don't actually read the content of the site.
The comments on this thread about another Indian "FT" giving his two cents' worth (rupees actually) are rational and most of all, intelligent responses.
It proves that netizens who prefer alternative views are educated and can contribute good ideas for the purpose of nation building.
I've picked out some random comments:
"The way I see it, India Health Care is in an even more “dire straits” with many poor unable to seek treatment. So what is your motive for coming here instead of staying back in your country to practice and help out the poor?"
"The issues are not of racism and discrimination but one of qualifications. Countries like Australia, UK and NZ are stringent in their acceptance of foreign-trained doctors. In NZ, the medical degrees have to be recognised by the Medical Council of NZ, there is a need to have passed approved medical registration exam, the need to have work in a country with a health system comparable to NZ for some years….and other conditions to be satisfied. So, even if the doctors had graduated from top Indian Colleges (which by the way are not recognised in NZ) and have experience working in India, they cannot work in NZ. They would have to go for re-training and work under supervision before being able to get registered and work as a medical practitioner."
"It is absolutely understandable that you “don’t know the solution”.
It needs to be a “native” Singaporean who has gone through political thick and thin and with a conscientious character to understand the problem first before thinking of the solution.
The hostility is not really the FTs. Much less, you as a medical practitioner serving the sick Singaporeans.
It is the tyranny and nepotism in Singapore politics thrusted into the citizens over the past 50 years coupled with the policies and attitudes of the evil regime that gives rise to this phenomenon – hostility towards FTs/foreigners."
In any case, I mentioned in my previous post that the PAP, through the myopic grow-at-all-cost policy of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's team, has caused severe harm to our medical system.
It is unimaginable how then Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan failed to sufficiently expand our medical resources during the decade-long loose immigration policy which saw over a million foreign residents make Singapore home. Was he not on talking terms with then Manpower Minster Gan Kim Yong?
Worse, instead of addressing the root of the problem, which is uncontrolled immigration, the PAP sees fit to lower requirements for doctors and as a result, a wave of medical professionals from third world countries flocked to Singapore for a chance of earning strong Sing dollar and to live in a community where foreigners are sometimes treated better than native citizens.
If the intention was to benefit Singaporeans, the Health Ministry should have hired well qualified doctors from Western nations. But the centrepiece of PAP's masterplan is to depress wages so that greedy government linked companies will continue to rake in supernormal profits.
Healthcare is no exception.
My reply to this Indian doctor's comment is this--- Admit that you are working here for the money. If you were as noble as your profession would make you out to be, you should be treating the millions of poor in India who desperately need access to basic healtchare.
As such, come down from the moral high-ground you are standing on and keep your thoughts to yourself.
Do you think a Singaporean will go to India and publicly tell Indians what to do?
He would probably get mobbed.
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