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Remedy is worse than disease in the era of private and corporate hospitals!


By Paul Jagan Babu


According to a Chinese proverb, ‘It is easier to get a thousand prescriptions but harder to get a single remedy’. The opinion of the majority thereof is prevalent and the proverb has become the order of the day when looked at the private and the corporate hospitals and the super specialty doctors in Andhra Pradesh (India). It is well-known, as part of responsibility towards society, that hospitals must provide treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their ability to pay.

The private and corporate hospitals are treating patients as if they were the constant source of their income! If at all any patient visits hospital, they are charging him unnecessarily in the name of various medical tests. Some private hospitals have become byword for their looting in the name of quality-treatment. The government hospitals / public health centers have become slack in treating the patients and unequipped with the minimum required infrastructure.

“Even in the current fiscal budget for the year 2013, the ministry of health has not allocated sufficient funds for the provision of better medical facilities in the government hospitals / public health centers, and not allocated enough funds for 104, 108 services. Staff working with the government hospitals is faithfully rendering services for commission to the private and corporate hospitals by prescribing unnecessary diagnosis tests outside, and this ill-healthy situation is prevalent in the government hospitals. Since the commencement of ‘Aarogyasri Pathakamu’ (Health Planning Scheme of the ruling government in AP), even in the private hospitals, with the intent of gaining funds on account of the scheme, although not necessary, operations are being performed”, opined some senior citizens.

The slackness of government has opened doors for the robbing culture of the so called super specialty hospitals. In fact, medicine is a noble profession. Now the corporate and the private hospitals are afflicted with incurable money-disease. Proving this incident, recently head of the cardiology department in Nizam institute of medical sciences in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) has been caught red-handed by anti-corruption bureau. It was published in a major newspaper (Eenaadu) on 29.01.2013.

Charges are high in private hospitals. Now the remedy is worse than the disease. The poor and the middle-class are unable to afford the expenses for the treatment in the private and the corporate hospitals. If the same situation continues, the plight of the poor and the middle-class will be beyond imagination. At this prevailing juncture, the Government has to come up with a solid plan so that every citizen can have access to the super specialty hospitals irrespective of their income and social status (rich and poor). It should be recognized by the ruling party that the health of the working class is an indication of a progressive country. The government should realize that the poor and the middle class are afflicted with diseases due to system-defects.

The government is stone-deaf to this growing concern and should be back to square one! The private, the corporate hospitals and super specialty doctors need to act on humanitarian grounds taking the prevailing plight into serious consideration.
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