Nurses

We often hear about nurses from Kerala being ill treated up at North India where they go for work. I've a great respect for that profession and for the boys and girls who take up that Angels profession as career from Kerala and elsewhere. Those of us who were born and brought up in Kerala and had gone "out" to work, might have come across this situation at some point or the other and we understand how miserable it feels to be made felt substandard. True, we do have a language problem with Hindi, as we have to pick these language from the scratch, and it take us a while to cope with the native speakers. That catching up time is often the Waterloo for most of us with insults hurled at us mercilessly everyday, especially when we are at a job where we have to meet a lot of people.

Perhaps, we can think of forming self-help groups with volunteers from different walks of life, assisting with some kind of language workshops to help those who need it. Various religious and social organization can make a very good platform for this.

Its awful to think of the state of mind of a superior who will tear off a uniform of an employee just to make a point like it happened in a famous hospital at Delhi. It will be easy to term such as racism, but we know better no matter where we are in India, if our skills are good enough, a Malayalee is a very well sought after resource. We all have a lot of experience to share in our "working away" life where we were appreciated and cherished for our attitude to work and sincerity to the employer.

My sympathies are with those unfortunate young nurses (both reported and unreported) who has to go through these severe emotional experience at work, please know, we are proud of your ambition and will to go far out to support your career and families, let us not be disheartened by these little things, let us always remember what we came out for and work hard for it, we know in our heart when we make our "grades" we will be more bright than anybody else or as bright as the best in our country.