Ward boy as surgeon, bad; Surgeon with a degree thru quota, worse

There is justifiable outrage in the country over a video that shows cleaners (authorities say ward boys) in a hospital in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh conducting surgery, giving injections and stitching wounds. It seems implausible that hospitals would allow poor patients’ lives to be played around with and worse, those responsible for all of it, the political masters, justifying it. Even for a nation where people have almost zero confidence in government run medical facilities, for they know of the horror stories that abound, this has come as a shocker.

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