A doctor working with a Basic Health Unit of a village recently applied for overseas employment in response to the announcement of vacancies of medical professionals which appeared in a section of the press. Many others from the health department, government of Sindh, also applied for these jobs, and those who got through have now gone to the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf countries. Our thinking has created problems for our own nation. Every house in urban area is trying to send its younger generation to a foreign country for the sake of money.
Pakistani brain is on sale nowadays.
The same thinking has been developing in villages as well. Due to this thinking, whatever our universities are producing are going to serve in foreign lands. Hundreds of doctors recently went to those Gulf countries. These doctors were sent by our own health department. The main purpose of the basic health units was to educate the rural community about the measures it can take to prevent the outbreak of diseases.