We recently posted a Medical Officer vacancy offering a salary of Rs. 40,000–45,000 per month. The feedback was quick and divided.
Some responses were measured and argued a clear point: “Don’t post these. You are normalising low pay. A Medical Officer deserves Rs. 70,000 or more.” That is a fair argument, and we respect it.
Others simply wrote: “Shame on you.” We sat with that. We understand where it comes from, years of watching doctors underpaid, undervalued, and overworked. That shame is real. But it belongs at the door of those setting these salaries, not at a platform trying to make information visible.
Here is the other reality.
Not every doctor who comes to us is in the same situation. Some are looking for a part-time role that fits around a full-time job or studies. Some want a low-pressure position while they prepare for FCPS or a foreign exam. Some, and this is harder to say but true, are in a difficult situation and need income now, at whatever rate is available.
These are real people. Their needs are valid.
“We are a platform, not a regulator. Our job is to connect, not to decide who deserves to apply.”
Do we wish every hospital paid fairly? Absolutely. Do we encourage the profession to push for better compensation? Yes. But removing a job from our board does not raise its salary. It only means that doctor the one who needed it finds out about it later, or not at all.
What we will continue to do is be transparent. Every manual posting shows the salary. You can see exactly what is being offered. You decide if it is right for you. No one is being misled.
The concern about low pay is legitimate and worth raising with hospital management, PMDC, and medical associations. We support that conversation fully. But the solution is not to hide these jobs it is to fix the system that produces them.
Until then, we will keep posting. Because someone out there is looking.