Chinese praise Indian TV host who read news of husband’s death

Thousands of Chinese have praised the composure of Indian television anchor Supreet Kaur who learnt about her husband’s death in a road accident while talking to a reporter on live television but continued reading the news.

The news about Kaur with Chhattisgarh-based IBC-24 channel was picked up by Chinese media after it was reported by China’s official news agency, Xinhua, over the weekend.

Many media outlets from the Mainland including People’s Daily (Chinese), the Communist party mouthpiece, state-controlled China Daily and Global Times besides Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post picked up the news, hailing Kaur’s professional ethics.

Users of Weibo, China’s equivalent to Twitter, praised Kaur. ‘Soumns xiaolongxia’ said: “She really has the professional quality” to continue reading the news even after hearing the tragedy.

Another user ‘Best pepi_pjy’ wrote : “The anchor is devoted to her work so much.” Weibo user ‘Lost star’ wrote: “I cried and felt really sad.” And, user ‘Fisherman in Panyang’ said: “A strong woman. Hope she will get better.”

The South China Morning Post quoting the World Health Organisation, said the incident was a grim reminder that India’s roads are “among the world’s deadliest, with more than 200 000 fatalities

A new study by the University College London has added data to the discourse of doctors in the National Health Service trained in India and other non-eu countries being more likely to face inquiries based on complaints than their UK counterparts.

Doctors with Indian medical qualifications comprise the second largest cohort in the NHS, after those trained in the UK. The latest figures show there are accounting for 9% of doctors registered with the General Medical Council (GMC). The study looked at GMC’S fitness-to-practice (FTP) investigations initiated when complaints are made against doctors by patients, police or other stakeholders. The analysis covered the 1996-2013 period, when the number of Indian doctors almost doubled.

Henry Potts, co-author of the study published in BMC Medical Education, told HT: “Indiantrained doctors made up around 10% of doctors in the UK over this period butcontributed22%ofthe about five times more likely than a Uk-trained doctor to be assessed. This is lower than countries like Bangladesh, Egypt and Nigeria, but higher than Ireland and South Africa.”

Potts added that the high prevalence of India-trained doctors could be related in part to they being more likely to be men than Uk-trained doctors: “Men are considerably more likely to get into such difficulties than female doctors.” The high number of FTP inquiries against Indian doctors has previously been countered with charges and examples