Re: Making Pakistan a better place to live..
dawa-i-dil: If medical students in Pakistan weren't cheating on their exams and getting admissions based on whom they know; if medical schools in Pakistan worked harder to keep students in Pakistan and encourage them to work in villages (ex. mandatory rotation in village hospitals); if there were more medical schools in Pakistan; if it wasn't trendy for a girl to go to medical school just so she could get a good rishta, and then sit at home after taking up a seat in medical school (but your traditional mindset would support that - she shouldn't be working, should she?); if there was more ethical regulation over hospitals and doctors and doctors weren't getting away with delivering substandard healthcare; if your vaderas and chaudris and khans would quit running out medical doctors from their villages because they want to give polio vaccines to villagers because my God, those polio vaccines are filled up with an American substance to sterilize your gonads...
What the hell do you expect a doctor working abroad to do? You saw what happened in NWFP. They killed a doctor for delivering polio vaccines to the villagers. Do you know how doctors, residents, and medical students feel about going back to Pakistan to help reform healthcare?
Even religious organizations are afraid of doing dawah in some of these territories, because the stubborn backward mindset of the villagers and their chaudris are unbearable and inreases your liklihood of getting killed.
Aap ko bhara hamdard hai in logon ke liye - then go drive out to NWFP and vaccinate those kids with polio vaccines. You don't need to be a doctor to put injections in those people. You can take a bloody 1 week health care course abroad and go and deliver those vaccines.
Please send us pictures when you get there.