United Kingdom is a developed country, ranked as the sixth richest country in the world as per World Bank GDP ranking. While Bhutan on the other hand is a small, landlocked Himalayan kingdom sandwiched between World Economic giants; China and India, and we are a low-middle income country. But the issue of how well our nurses and doctors, and other healthcare professionals (for that matter) are payed matters to Bhutan as much as it does in UK.
Low wage isn't good at all, especially for these group of professionals who commit and give in so much; getting faced with enormous workload and work-related stresses. Experiencing burnout to the extend of contacting compassion fatigue thereby hampering patient care. In a nutshell, it's a vicious cycle and the quality of health care deteriorates. That's bad for country's growth and welfare.
Our economy's been growing and that means we are growing money adequately so. And as we find it, the issue isn't whether we can grow money or not, it's where the money goes once it's been grown. From a distance we can see (as an observer like a political watchdog), many countries in the world are in the same boat and facing the same (if not identical) issue. The truth is that the governments just make a choice not to...pay nurses, doctors and teachers properly. And that's outrageous.
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| Healthcare Professionals at Dochula, 2017 |
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