These days the entire world is full of health hazards and there are enormous factors responsible for this. Be it the changing lifestyle, industrialization, urbanization, adulteration, junk consumption, fast food and a lot more. Then the outbreak of Covid 19 pandemic added more to the problems. In a nutshell, these days it is hard to afloat without doctors. But this doesn't mean at all that doctors, technicians and the chemists should take unfair advantage of it. They all have joined hands and have subjected the valley of Kashmir to loot and plunder. Let's be honest, we all know that Government Hospitals remain crowded and messed up. Mostly, people prefer to go to private Doctors and hospitals There they are made to pay large sums on grounds of fees( there r some Doctors who even charge in thousands), Not just that, then after checking them up, they tell them to get various tests done & recommend them to get those tests done from the nearby laboratories (who give them commission), the technicians then also charge heavy sums for those tests. Let me share my personal experience with you all, few days back, I went with my grandfather to a nearby private hospital, firstly we paid the fees then the Doctor denied to check the patient and said to get a rapid Covid Test done, So the receptionist said that the laboratory is available in the hospital where we can get the test done. Since he (grandfather ) was in pain, so we preferred not to go far & got it done there only. The technician said that you have to pay 450 rupees for that Covid test (in the local dispensary it costs nothing). Then after seeing the negative report, the Doctor checked the patient and prescribed some medicines, following which we went to the hospitals pharmacy, where they didn't give any rebate. This is not something that happened with my grandfather only, well it happens with almost everyone. Well, I totally understand the difference between a government hospital and a private hospital but the private hospitals also need to understand that we can't do whatever we want in the name of private hospital and charge as much as we want. I don't know why isn't the government doing anything ... For this if they can set rates for various things why can't they set a uniform rate for all the tests?
All I want to say is:
"Doctors are considered as a medium through which Almighty grants a new life the patients, they need to respect their noble profession and think about the situation of people and maintain their decorum"
P.S. we all know it's Kashmir -the land of dispute where almost every next day ,the Valley remains shut ...!
The sources of income are already meagre and then the pandemic added more the disguise!
2/3rd of the entire population is comprised of middle class ... Doctors can't loot people in the name of treatment....!

Author is a student of 11th class
Email:----inammughal1975@gmail.com