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" Mullah sahib! I am in a terrible fix. "

" Yes, health Minister, what is your problem? "

" All doctors from India are going to the US and staying there. No one wants

to come back to India. Tell me what I can do to make them stay back. "

" But why are they going there, my son? "

" It's probably because there is too much reservation in the system. "

" Then remove the reservation. "

" I am the health minister. I cannot remove reservation. They are probably

also going because there are no R & D facilities or even good paying jobs

here. "

" Then make the facilities and pay them good money. "

" I cannot do that. India is a poor country. "

" But I keep hearing of scams worth lakhs of crores of rupees! "

" Yeah, that is why India is poor. "

" But one Mr. Ahluwalia had suggested that all corporates be allowed to open

their own Medical colleges, so that this artificial scarcity of doctors will

be permanently dealt with. "

" I cannot do anything there, because all the present Medical colleges are

owned by powerful people and they will never allow their monopolies (and

donations) to disappear. "

" Then as a health Minister what can you do? "

" I can stop issuing NOC, so that doctors cannot work in the US. "

" But are not many ministers' children also studying in the US? "

" Yes! But fortunately, very few of them are becoming doctors. And the few

who become doctors can always become health ministers. "

" Good! This reminds me of a story. Once, Mullah Naseeruddin lost his key on

the road. As he was searching under a street light, a passerby asked him if

he had lost his key there. Mullah Naseeruddin said, 'No. I lost it further

down the road. But as there is a streetlight here, I am searching for it

here.' Thus, you know that the key is elsewhere, but as you have a street

light, you want to search for it here. Please go ahead. "

Moral of the story: If you have a hammer, everything starts looking like a

nail!

-Kishore Shah