All India Institute of Mad Sciences

AIIMS or All India Institute of Medical sciences is the premier medical institute in India. Premier hospitals in India refer special cases to AIIMS for expertise. AIIMS boasts of having conducted many rare surgeries and operations.

Ask any medical aspirant in India where he/she wants to study and this is the name you will most likely hear. It is statistically nearly impossible to predict if you will get in through the undergraduate entrance examination, no matter how hard you study. Why, because for tens of thousands of applicants AIIMS selects less than 50 ( this was the number few years ago) . Does it mean they produce medical geniuses?

Take a look here . What is at stake here ? Ego or lives of 10,000 people? Why are they putting so many poor and helpless people at risk? If I had the power, I would fire all of them. They do not deserve to be called doctors. Unfortunately, this is the scene all over India. Hospitals and medical facilities all over India look upto AIIMS as a role model and a leader. And thus, they strike at whim. All this in a country which has healthcare delivery and doctors to patients ratio comparable(maybe worse) to sub-Saharan Africa.

This is not the first time AIIMS docs have stopped work. They do it for anything and everything. Recently , they stopped work on the reservation issue. As an ex-student at IIT Delhi situated nearby, I have heard horror stories of dirty student politics at AIIMS. If you happen to go to AIIMS wards, you can easily overhear stuff like " mar gaya naa, dekh ke dawai deni thee" ( See , the patient died. You should have checked properly before giving medicine) from medical interns. Try going there without a referral from a politician or a burauecrat. So much for geniuses.

Bloody spoilt brats!

Why should I be so upset, you may ask. Well , every tax payer should be. The research for which AIIMS is so famous is subsidized by my money. And yours. For what?