Hello Everybody....as you all must be aware about the new television serial "Satyamev Jayate" telecasted at 11AM on every Sunday.Today it was its 4th episode and topic was Medicine...It highlighted the already known fact about prevailing corruption in the field of medicine. The culture of commission is rising [20-50 %] which leads to the increase in the over all cost of medical care in India. This adversely affect the poor people of this country. It is more ironic that when India is being projected as hot spot for medical care and being promoted as 'Health Tourism" her own people are dying due to lack of medical care infrastructure and high cost of medicines....Dr Samit Sharma,IAS,Rajasthan cadre took a unique initiative to decrease the cost of medicine in Rajasthan by promoting opening of 'generic medical shops' where the same medicine can be obtained at much cheaper prices than the branded medicines prescribed by doctors..This experiment must be repeated in other parts of the country as well. Dr Devi of Narayan hryadayalaya is also taking low cost medical care to the interior parts of this country. He is pioneer in promoting farmers and poor people to enroll in low cost medical insurance scheme where farmers have to pay only 10 rupees in a month and can get free medical care in numerous hospitals covered under the scheme. Government also contribute in such insurance schemes. My suggestion is Government must universalise such low cost medical insurance schemes across the country. In this process it can take help of Mobile companies. Monthly premium can be deducted from the recharge amount of that particular mobile user. This way coverage of the scheme will be very high and user will not have any additional burden of formalities also.
I came across one pathetic corrupt practices being followed by some ophthalmologist doctors where they are operating cataract extraction on normal lens for want of money only. Some cases are coming in to lime light where doctors are prescribing unnecessary medicine for the want of commission. Actually it is a long chain where Pharma company pays money to the doctors to prescribe its medicine. Doctors in turn ask the patient to go for numerous test to a particular pathology lab from which doctor gets 30-50 % commission. Some time one doctor refers the patient to another doctor for second opinion and in turn charge commission from that doctor. In this whole process Patient suffers a lot and leads to pay very high cost for his/her medical care. Therefore, in this process of loot, only doctors and pharma company gains.
To check all these mal-practices in medicine,Medical council of India is responsible to take corrective measures along with government. MCI must suspend or cancel license given to such Doctors who misuse their profession. At the same time,government must open government medical colleges and stop giving permission to private players to open medical colleges. As,in private medical colleges, the capitation fees is very high e.g. for Radiology-around 1.2 Crore,Gynaecology -around 80 Lakhs,Skin-around 60 Lakhs,Ophthalmology- around 65 Lakhs...the doctors who will be passed out from such medical colleges will definitely try to recover such a huge sum from patients only by doing malpractices....Therefore, if government wants to promote private players then admission in the medical colleges has to be from All India Medical Entrance Examination and government can grant money to such medical colleges to recover the cost. MCI should play a big role in preventing mushrooming of medical colleges and fraud doctors. Then only we can ensure quality,free and safe medical care to everyone.
Mr Amir Khan is doing a really nice job by telecasting such important issues.All the best Amir....keep on blogging...
I came across one pathetic corrupt practices being followed by some ophthalmologist doctors where they are operating cataract extraction on normal lens for want of money only. Some cases are coming in to lime light where doctors are prescribing unnecessary medicine for the want of commission. Actually it is a long chain where Pharma company pays money to the doctors to prescribe its medicine. Doctors in turn ask the patient to go for numerous test to a particular pathology lab from which doctor gets 30-50 % commission. Some time one doctor refers the patient to another doctor for second opinion and in turn charge commission from that doctor. In this whole process Patient suffers a lot and leads to pay very high cost for his/her medical care. Therefore, in this process of loot, only doctors and pharma company gains.
To check all these mal-practices in medicine,Medical council of India is responsible to take corrective measures along with government. MCI must suspend or cancel license given to such Doctors who misuse their profession. At the same time,government must open government medical colleges and stop giving permission to private players to open medical colleges. As,in private medical colleges, the capitation fees is very high e.g. for Radiology-around 1.2 Crore,Gynaecology -around 80 Lakhs,Skin-around 60 Lakhs,Ophthalmology- around 65 Lakhs...the doctors who will be passed out from such medical colleges will definitely try to recover such a huge sum from patients only by doing malpractices....Therefore, if government wants to promote private players then admission in the medical colleges has to be from All India Medical Entrance Examination and government can grant money to such medical colleges to recover the cost. MCI should play a big role in preventing mushrooming of medical colleges and fraud doctors. Then only we can ensure quality,free and safe medical care to everyone.
Mr Amir Khan is doing a really nice job by telecasting such important issues.All the best Amir....keep on blogging...
