Shiv Pande on knowing your rights
Apr 22, 01:52 PM
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Born and trained in India, Shiv worked as a GP in Liverpool in the 1970s. In 1980, he initiated and presented the Asian television programme Aap Kaa Hak (Know Your Rights). In this interview for the College in 2019, he talks about the impact the TV show had on his own practice.
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Here is the person who's talking in English for the people who are born here, brought up here, educated here, living here, who know the language, that these are your rights. There is a need for them to know their rights. Then I said, as I said to you, I said, what about those who are not born here, not brought up here, not educated here, whose language is different: Asians and Blacks. Will there be a need for them? The answer was that yes, this is the right question to ask. […]
So, I registered myself with an evening adult course on journalism and media. Where I did the print media, radio media and television media. So, I will go to the Liverpool University and attend those classes in the evening and that was very good, that gave me lot of confidence, knowledge, understanding of the technicalities. So, I did that and it went very well. Then coming to how I used that extra knowledge into my practice. Now there I was interviewing the people: a dietitian, a nurse, a doctor for contraceptive so, I said ‘well, why not I do these things in my own surgery?’ I started communicating with the district nurses in charge and I said ‘well, if you want you can come, we have got additional room, you can do the things there, that room was available’. So, I started doing the Family planning clinic there. District nurses coming there. Dietitian coming there. Social worker coming there.
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Here is the person who's talking in English for the people who are born here, brought up here, educated here, living here, who know the language, that these are your rights. There is a need for them to know their rights. Then I said, as I said to you, I said, what about those who are not born here, not brought up here, not educated here, whose language is different: Asians and Blacks. Will there be a need for them? The answer was that yes, this is the right question to ask. […]
So, I registered myself with an evening adult course on journalism and media. Where I did the print media, radio media and television media. So, I will go to the Liverpool University and attend those classes in the evening and that was very good, that gave me lot of confidence, knowledge, understanding of the technicalities. So, I did that and it went very well. Then coming to how I used that extra knowledge into my practice. Now there I was interviewing the people: a dietitian, a nurse, a doctor for contraceptive so, I said ‘well, why not I do these things in my own surgery?’ I started communicating with the district nurses in charge and I said ‘well, if you want you can come, we have got additional room, you can do the things there, that room was available’. So, I started doing the Family planning clinic there. District nurses coming there. Dietitian coming there. Social worker coming there.