Doctors being called chors, private nursing homes and hospitals branded looteras, is this the way those who provide 75-80 percent of care to the needy are going to be treated. Threats of jail terms, cases of stone pelting and beating up of doctors and nurses is now an established norm. Is this Mera Bharat Mahan!
Till such time Health insurance penetration increases, at least 7-8 percent gdp spend on healthcare occurs, dependence on private healthcare is a necessity.
Regulations are a must— regulate and banish quacks, stop capitation money for ug and pg admissions, come down hard on doctors attached to many medical colleges, those who give or take commissions but if you can’t or won’t do it but get after established private players doing a service that the same people who target it, tom tom and promote for medical tourism, then how do you defend this double speak?
Our private doctors and hospitals are promoted by the same governments that now sit on enquirers against them.
Not even the best government hospitals are even accredited by NABH, most good private hospitals are. Does this not tell a telling tale of how quality and safety is compromised!
Governments are planning to regulate prices of procedures, consults— why not apply the same to lawyers, hotels, businesses, airlines?
Am glad I am in the evening of my carreer, it’s not the Indian Healthcare I had imagined to be.
It has reached a tipping point— if private enterprise in healthcare is suppressed, not only will there be huge economical loss but a massive morbidity and mortality.
Those in the media who are questioning number of gloves and syringes , have sadly never queried why and how the district hospitals have no critical care specialists, icu, nicu and PICU where middle class and poor people get good quality healthcare at very low cost, why no one questions the poor quality of staff, equipment and lack of numbers I primary care centres and district hospitals. When someone invests and provides these, costs will be high and without either the insurance or government paying, it will need to come out of pocket of a person who finds it tough to pay and if by chance the clinical outcome is poor( doctor is not a God), all hell breaks lose.
In any case such as the one now at fmri, media and some members of the society are alleging malpractice, overcharging, lack of sympathy without looking at the evidence. Titles like ladki tadapti rahi Hospital lootte rage are beginning strains of a program. What has this india if mine come to, I am afraid of the viability of this industry which employs huge numbers, almost 50 percent of whom are women.
I wonder if in the next decade the best talent would be attracted to this field. Already number of science students are falling, I expect the coming decade will see a further fall, certainly the creme de la creme will shun this profession.
Wake up folks and smell the coffee.