Nurses are forced to go to conflict zones.

The nurses trapped in Tikrit by the swift advance of ISIS in Iraq are back in India, another 200 Indians are expected back shortly. There must be many others still left there, some wanting to hang on to their jobs for as long as they can while others wanting to get out without having the means to do so. Why do Indians travel to conflict zones in search of work? Obviously because they can earn a lot more money than they can in India. If they get jobs here in the first place. But another very important point is the ease of living. There is no income tax and any surplus money invested in NRI accounts in banks in India earns a high rate of interest completely tax fee. Accommodation, electricity and water are provided free of cost. Roads are wide, petrol is cheap and there is no need to pay bribes because no one is seeking buy assets there. There is not the daily struggle for survival that you get in India with power cuts, erratic water supply and having to fight through thousands of people to get from point A to point B. The only way to improve the quality of life is to reduce the number of people. That will reduce the strain on resources and improve the economy. In a recent interview our new Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan says,".....it is our responsibility to maintain that the first right over resources is of the poor." It is a shocking statement which means that taxpayers have no rights, that there is no equality under the constitution and that the poor are a class of parasites who have first claim on resources without any responsibility to the nation. In Delhi, private hospitals which have been given land at concessional rates are required to provide free treatment to poor patients. Surely it is a good thing. The cost of land in Delhi is prohibitive so if a company is allowed to build a private hospital on land provided cheaply by the government then they should provide free treatment to the poor. But what about us. We are told to get medical insurance. Which is useless. Medical insurance has a lot of conditions, premiums are expensive and insurance companies refuse to pay when a claim is made. What is the point in being insured for Rs 200,000 when a coronary bypass costs Rs 300,000, cancer may cost anything up to Rs 5 million and kidney dialysis costs Rs 10,000 every week. So if you are middle class stay at home and die. Under the Right to Education private schools have to reserve 25% of seats for poor students so fees for middle class children have doubled. What civilised country penalises its children depending on where they are born? And our Supreme Court agrees. If the Constitution or our courts cannot guarantee equality then nurses will have to return to conflict zones to survive. A paradox, what?