There is a great deal of malaise in the health care system in India as company after company sets up a string of hospitals to make a fast buck in the booming market economy.
June 12, 2007 (Press Release) --
Is there a great deal of malaise in the health care system in India as company after company sets up a string of hospitals to make a fast buck in the booming market economy? The rich may not bat an eyelid to shell out a few lakhs of rupees or even a million or more to get well? One more logical argument of the medical care sector is that there is a wait of years for a surgical procedure in Britain, Europe and America and the cost is very high there. So the patients and National Health Service of Britain as well insurance companies in the west find it worth their while to send their clients to India for speedy treatment in India at what is called a fraction of the cost back home. They know that Indian doctors trained in the best hospitals of the world are competent. Medical tourism, with a holiday in Goa, Kerala or the hill resorts thrown in makes India a very attractive proposition.
In this scenario, if the poor Indians, who cannot afford treatment at plush, five star hospitals and must take their turn at public hospitals, deserve to be ignored and left to their fate—to live or die as gods' will ordains. Yet day after day one hears of doctors' callousness in prescribing needless surgeries when medication or other treatments will suffice. It is alleged that cartels of hospital companies and private doctors running small clinics are in accord and concord to refer hordes of their patients to super specialists to seek advice, further treatment, a host of tests, invasive procedures like scans, angiographies, angioplasties, insertion of stent devices and heart bypass operations regardless of advanced age of patients, who may be incapable of even taking large doses of anesthesia.
Some of these great specialists offer free services at numerous charitable clinics with the hidden and basic intent and instinct of luring patients to their main hospital for a surgery like knee or hip replacement or heart treatment in an operation theatre. If they succeed in getting one out of ten patients so advised, they have succeeded in using their 'charitable time' profitably and successfully.
It is also known that some private doctors examining a patient for frozen shoulder, especially left arm pain, advise their patients in middle age or advanced age, to have their heart checked out. While this may appear to be a reasonable precaution on the part of the family doctor, the heart specialist may have other designs. He would like first of all to take an angiography, especially if some blood tests do not reveal much, but there is known to be a litmus test, very simple, which doctors use on themselves, but perhaps not always on their patients.
Yet it must be acknowledged that medical science and technology has taken great strides and a number of non-invasive or minimal invasive procedures have been devised and are being practiced and patients with severe and grave ailments are being treated quickly and sent back home in a few days after an operation. Several eye treatments do
In this scenario, if the poor Indians, who cannot afford treatment at plush, five star hospitals and must take their turn at public hospitals, deserve to be ignored and left to their fate—to live or die as gods' will ordains. Yet day after day one hears of doctors' callousness in prescribing needless surgeries when medication or other treatments will suffice. It is alleged that cartels of hospital companies and private doctors running small clinics are in accord and concord to refer hordes of their patients to super specialists to seek advice, further treatment, a host of tests, invasive procedures like scans, angiographies, angioplasties, insertion of stent devices and heart bypass operations regardless of advanced age of patients, who may be incapable of even taking large doses of anesthesia.
Some of these great specialists offer free services at numerous charitable clinics with the hidden and basic intent and instinct of luring patients to their main hospital for a surgery like knee or hip replacement or heart treatment in an operation theatre. If they succeed in getting one out of ten patients so advised, they have succeeded in using their 'charitable time' profitably and successfully.
It is also known that some private doctors examining a patient for frozen shoulder, especially left arm pain, advise their patients in middle age or advanced age, to have their heart checked out. While this may appear to be a reasonable precaution on the part of the family doctor, the heart specialist may have other designs. He would like first of all to take an angiography, especially if some blood tests do not reveal much, but there is known to be a litmus test, very simple, which doctors use on themselves, but perhaps not always on their patients.
Yet it must be acknowledged that medical science and technology has taken great strides and a number of non-invasive or minimal invasive procedures have been devised and are being practiced and patients with severe and grave ailments are being treated quickly and sent back home in a few days after an operation. Several eye treatments do
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