The Prime Minister has left hospital after successful cardiac bypass surgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences or AIIMS. Wish him well. During his government in the last five years AIIMS has had to put up with many problems. The first was due to the HRD minister, Arjun Singh who increased the number of seats reserved for low caste candidates. AIIMS students and house staff went on strike because the lower caliber of students would lower standards, a very legitimate grievance. The strike was put down with brutality that the
gestapo would have been proud of. As a man of principle the Prime Minister should have asked for a team consisting of only reservation doctors and thus would have put all suspicions to rest. That he did not shows what contempt and fear he has of them. The second problem was created by the Health Minister, Ramadoss who harassed the previous director, a doctor of some renown, only to put his own stooge in. The Supreme Court was scathing in its remarks of Ramadoss's actions. This resulted in many of the faculty leaving and morale falling to rock bottom. The Prime Minister showed his opinion of AIIMS by flying in a team from the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai who even brought their own instruments. Thus has Nehru's creation been destroyed by this government in just one term. No sharam, no izzat.