It’s good to see
smiling faces of BJP leaders Hema Malini (the dream girl) and Murli Manohar
Joshi (the then Union Human Resource Minister, with whom I had the honour of
sharing the dais on January 24, 1999 at the time of 30th All India
Optometry Conference at Manesar; he being the chief guest and I being the
conference chairman)…Picture source:
Times of India, May 25, 2012.
Ever since my
involvement with the primary eye care profession starting 1959 (as a student at
Gandhi Eye Hospital School of Optometry, Aligarh), my life has evolved around
optometry, that has seen many ups and downs, served the society’s vision and
eye care needs, and is now playing an important `co-management of eye diseases’
role hand-in-hand with ophthalmology.
But, since one
also needs to look beyond optometry, I’m distressed to see the non-smiling
faces of scores of citizens who don’t find life easy due to several social ills
like ever-increasing inflation, adulteration, crimes, and corruption.
And, reverting
back to the two leaders, I earnestly look upon Hema ji and Joshi ji to
sincerely work towards finding ways (i) for the creation of an Optometric
Council of India, so as to ensure efficient delivery of primary eye care
services to the citizens in the hands of those qualified (say, by forcefully
raising the issue in Parliament), and (ii) for the reduction (and possibly
elimination) of inflation, adulteration, crimes, and corruption (say, by
getting government measures introduced for strict rules and heavy penalties, as
also speedy justice in courts of law), so as to ensure smiling faces all
around!
Dr. Narendra
Kumar
Editor, Optometry
Today
OptometryToday@gmail.com
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