200 Pakistani doctors doing odd jobs in India

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Dr Dashrath Kela at his cousin’s shoe store in Maninagar. Kela is an MBBS from Karachi University. He can't practice medicine here until he gets a certificate from the Medical Council of India (MCI).
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AHMEDABAD: In 2001, Dashrath Kela, 38, started his career as a doctor with a monthly salary of Rs 25,000. Nine years later, he is a shop assistant at his cousin's shoe store in Maninagar, earning Rs 15,000 a month.

Kela is an MBBS from Karachi University. He fled to Ahmedabad in 2006 fearing for the safety of his family. He can't practice medicine here until he gets a certificate from the Medical Council of India (MCI). There are around 200 such Pakistani doctors in Gujarat - mostly from Sindh - who have the skill to heal but their hands are tied by red tape and uncertainty on citizenship.

Without the MCI's permission to practice, these doctors often work in pharmacies or even mobile repair shops - all for a pittance. Some also work the graveyard shift in hospitals offering their services as "charity" because they can't be hired legally.

Most of the Pakistani doctors fled to Gujarat for safety. They say kidnapping of girls from the Hindu community settled there, as well as extortion by anti-social elements, was common place. A large Sindhi population in Ahmedabad made the relocation that much easier.

"In Pakistan, patients used to treat us like gods. Here we are forced to beg for jobs to stay alive," says Dr Jayram Lohana, 46, who used to earn Rs 1 lakh a month in Sindh before he came to India in 2012. In Ahmedabad, he works at his cousin's mobile store right next to the airport. "We escaped terrorists and found safety here, but nobody is willing to help us put our lives back on track," he says.

READ ALSO: Gujarat government willing to employ Pak doctors

Lohana now offers 'sewa' in a charitable hospital for Rs 20,000 a month. He had applied for the job of a medical officer in rural areas and his application was forwarded by the state government to MCI, which declined to certify him as he is not an Indian citizen.

"A foreign-educated doctor has to obtain Indian citizenship and clear the mandatory screening test to practice in India," says MCI chairman Dr Jayshree Mehta. Very few of these doctors have Indian citizenship, much as they would like to get it. They stay on long-term visas, renewable every year, which prohibit them from taking jobs.

As per the rules, Pakistanis can apply for Indian citizenship after staying here for seven years. The process takes another two to three years and then one encounters the red tape at MCI. Dr Girdharilal Sinchani, 42, knows it all too well. He did his MBBS from Karachi in 1997 and came to India in 2001. He got citizenship in February 2014 but has been waiting for MCI approval for the past 14 months. "We came here hoping for a better life, but while there is safety, we can't get jobs or buy property to live or do business."

Pakistan trained doctor sells shoes in Ahmedabad - The Times of India

 

[VelocuR]

This explains alot difference between Pakistan and India. These immigrant people thought India will treat them same respect or gods but alas bullshit.

"In Pakistan, patients used to treat us like gods. Here we are forced to beg for jobs to stay alive," says Dr Jayram Lohana, 46, who used to earn Rs 1 lakh a month in Sindh before he came to India in 2012. In Ahmedabad, he works at his cousin's mobile store right next to the airport. "We escaped terrorists and found safety here, but nobody is willing to help us put our lives back on track," he says."

Hopefully our situations get betters, Pakistani Hindu will decide back to Pakistan soon to get old best jobs.

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

Where this figure of 200 doctors came from? lol

 

[Psychic]

There were issues in Karachi and Sindh. No one denies them but instead of travelling to other country and doing low salary jobs, they could have easily migrated to other cities. They are paying for that folly now.

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

There were issues in Karachi and Sindh. No one denies them but instead of travelling to other country and doing low salary jobs, they could have easily migrated to other cities. They are paying for that folly now.

They probably thought India is land of opportunities

 

[ito]

Probably Pakistan degrees will never be recognized in India. They should go back to their own country.

 

[Psychic]

They probably thought India is land of opportunities

Banda UK, Australia ya Dubai bhi tou ja sakta tha.

 

[Thorough Pro]

Karachi University and MBBS? looks like a fake story

Dr Dashrath Kela at his cousin’s shoe store in Maninagar. Kela is an MBBS from Karachi University. He can't practice medicine here until he gets a certificate from the Medical Council of India (MCI).
Text resize:AAA

AHMEDABAD: In 2001, Dashrath Kela, 38, started his career as a doctor with a monthly salary of Rs 25,000. Nine years later, he is a shop assistant at his cousin's shoe store in Maninagar, earning Rs 15,000 a month.

Kela is an MBBS from Karachi University. He fled to Ahmedabad in 2006 fearing for the safety of his family. He can't practice medicine here until he gets a certificate from the Medical Council of India (MCI). There are around 200 such Pakistani doctors in Gujarat - mostly from Sindh - who have the skill to heal but their hands are tied by red tape and uncertainty on citizenship.

Without the MCI's permission to practice, these doctors often work in pharmacies or even mobile repair shops - all for a pittance. Some also work the graveyard shift in hospitals offering their services as "charity" because they can't be hired legally.

Most of the Pakistani doctors fled to Gujarat for safety. They say kidnapping of girls from the Hindu community settled there, as well as extortion by anti-social elements, was common place. A large Sindhi population in Ahmedabad made the relocation that much easier.

"In Pakistan, patients used to treat us like gods. Here we are forced to beg for jobs to stay alive," says Dr Jayram Lohana, 46, who used to earn Rs 1 lakh a month in Sindh before he came to India in 2012. In Ahmedabad, he works at his cousin's mobile store right next to the airport. "We escaped terrorists and found safety here, but nobody is willing to help us put our lives back on track," he says.

READ ALSO: Gujarat government willing to employ Pak doctors

Lohana now offers 'sewa' in a charitable hospital for Rs 20,000 a month. He had applied for the job of a medical officer in rural areas and his application was forwarded by the state government to MCI, which declined to certify him as he is not an Indian citizen.

"A foreign-educated doctor has to obtain Indian citizenship and clear the mandatory screening test to practice in India," says MCI chairman Dr Jayshree Mehta. Very few of these doctors have Indian citizenship, much as they would like to get it. They stay on long-term visas, renewable every year, which prohibit them from taking jobs.

As per the rules, Pakistanis can apply for Indian citizenship after staying here for seven years. The process takes another two to three years and then one encounters the red tape at MCI. Dr Girdharilal Sinchani, 42, knows it all too well. He did his MBBS from Karachi in 1997 and came to India in 2001. He got citizenship in February 2014 but has been waiting for MCI approval for the past 14 months. "We came here hoping for a better life, but while there is safety, we can't get jobs or buy property to live or do business."

Pakistan trained doctor sells shoes in Ahmedabad - The Times of India

 

[Psychic]

Probably Pakistan degrees will never be recognized in India. They should go back to their own country.

why? waja?

 

[ito]

why? waja?

You know why...I don't need to explain.

 

[de_xtr]

Indian govt. should recognize their degrees and make sure that they get the job of medical officers at least.

We urgently need trained doctors in our country, and here we have, trained and further more important, experienced doctors, a whole 200 of them! And we are doing nothing about it.

They can be sent to rural areas like beat officers. I'm sure they will like the idea of traveling to different places across the length and breadth of India and it will be a unique mission in it's own.

I'm going to write to the Governor and the Prime Minister's Office about this.

 

[haviZsultan]

It is unfortunate they had to escape. But there is the opposite too. I am a Lucknowite.

 

[Psychic]

You know why...I don't need to explain.

When our people get jobs in US, UK ME and everywhere on the basis of those degrees then what is the japani keera in your behinds which stops you from recognizing Pakistani degrees?

It is unfortunate they had to escape. But there is the opposite too. I am a Lucknowite.

Could have escaped to safer Pakistani cities instead of this dramaybazi.

 

[acid rain]

Where this figure of 200 doctors came from? lol

They need to register with MCI - medical council of India - right?.

Karachi University and MBBS? looks like a fake story

Why? No medical colleges in karachi? Must be an axact degree.

 

[haviZsultan]

When our people get jobs in US, UK ME and everywhere on the basis of those degrees then what is the japani keera in your behinds which stops you from recognizing Pakistani degrees?


Could have escaped to safer Pakistani cities instead of this dramaybazi.

Bro no one leaves his home until things are really really bad. This is not dramaybazi. We should acknowledge as a fact that these people deserve equal rights and any one who is abusive or bad towards them should be punished. Instead when they move we blame the Pakistani Hindu. When we do not even acknowledge the poor rights condition for minorities how are we going to fix it? I think we should not look at these people as traitors, rather treat it as a failure of the state to protect them.

I propose a series of confidence building measures:

-A fund like the one for hajj being provided to Hindus going on Yatra to holy places in Indian occupied regions.
-Ending forced conversions with an iron hand. Establishing a commission to end this
-Stop forced marriages of Hindu girls with muslims.
-Provide extra rights to Pakistani Hindus and Sikhs etc Something like South Africa has for Muslims. (I am strongly advocating this-there is already a lot of bias and this will be compensation for them.
-Provide security to Hindu/minority households
-Repeal the blasphemy law which is used to frame and often extra judicially murder innocent minorities.