The next social justice reform the govt should bring is UPG (Universal Patient Guarantee).
1. If, despite so much social justice reforms, a reserved or management-quota doctor is not able to get patients in their OPDs, UPG will come into the picture.
2. UPG flying squads will roam around city clinics and monitor patient load. If needed, they will then pick up patients from waiting area of unreserved clinics and redistribute them to reserved/management-quota clinics.
3. Any patient resisting this will be reported by the UPG flying squad to the UPG legal squad, which will conduct a preliminary inquiry and then recommend to the police to book such patients under the Atrocities Act.
4. Clinics with excess patient load will be declared тАЬPatient HoardersтАЭ and asked to display a red warning board: тАЬThis clinic has more patients than socially permissible.тАЭ Such clinics will pay a 50% UPG tax.
5. Patients showing repeated preference for unreserved doctors will be mandatorily enrolled in a Sensitivity & Equality Counselling Programme, where they will be taught by JNU arts faculty that тАЬcompetence is a social construct.тАЭ
6. A Patient Redistribution App (UPG-Setu) will be launched. Patients booking unreserved doctors more than twice will be automatically reassigned to nearby reserved/management-quota clinics in the interest of equity.
7. Emergency cases will be triaged by a UPG task force consisting of a retired judge, and two serving IAS officers, who will assess patients not by severity but by representation deficit and divert patients to underperforming clinics.
8. Patients attempting to cross city limits to avoid UPG allocation will be stopped at checkpoints by the Patient Equity Police and redirected to the nearest compliant clinic.
It might sound absurd right now, but given the direction the republic is heading in, who knows whatтАЩs possible.