Return of migrated doctors

WEB COMMENTS

KL- If the Central Bank staff can be paid millions in salary why not doctors? Increase the salaries of doctors and look after them well. Politicians get all the perks and privileges and are paid a salary higher than doctors. That is why doctors leave the patient in the lurch.

MILA - They had to pay lot of taxes and live in isolation in a Western country with a different culture. They realised Sri Lanka is not as bad as Western countries. Many don’t actually need to leave Sri Lanka but opt to do so because they are greedy and want to show off to others that they live outside Sri Lanka. Life in

Sri Lanka is much better even with little money than to live with white ‘Europeans’ who are most of the time racist. Most of the Sri Lankans in Western countries are not happy, but they don’t say it openly. Indians are beaten and killed in the West. We too should be careful because we look like Indians.

WARREN - Well said. Many people do not understand the reality. Even with skilled migration, people find it difficult to find jobs in Australia, the UK, etc.

TRUTH IS BITTER - Doctors are very badly underpaid in this miracle land. Why is the Z score cut off high for Medicine? Why is there a 1 year internship even after a five-year degree? That’s because it’s the most responsible and difficult job. A doctor deals with lives, not paper, money or machines. For all the hardships a doctor faces during training and his whole career, the salary given by the government is not sufficient. Anyhow, I pity the healer whom many dislike, the reason only god will know.

WHAT A TURN OVER - These doctors are unable to get jobs in the UK. Thus they have to return. Their visas are not extended in the UK.

BANDU -

But those who migrated will not return. Only those who go on post graduate studies may return but this will only be marginal to the shortage.