Once a doctor friend frmo Mautritius explained to me, you see in a day a dcotor performs 100s of eye surgeries (Intr ocular lens replacements) in a day with bare minimum facilities and sophistication. For the same kind of thing, a western doctor from US/UK for eg, would need aseptic environment, highly sophisticated tools and assistants and wondered if he would be able to achieve that sort of expertise. Secondly India's population is great that an Indian doctors per day referral would easily outnumber annual referral of an american or brit doctor. So experience wise, Indian doctor is way ahead. But why should Indian's look differently? Because we are self-depreciating lot and enjoy self-pity and glorify this.
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AMISH , Admin/Facilities Manager, VKVC
| 08 05 2011 04:57:53 +0000
If we go 50 yrs back down the line, than wht we had in our health system, but now we have achieved a lot, although there are some obstacle are their like illiteracy, explosive population, migration, corrupt political system etc. so there is a change inspite of just 2% gdp being invested in health care, we have grt potential and in coming years indian public health is going to show it result.
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Divyesh Devaliya, Public health, intership
| 08 04 2011 03:34:29 +0000
Yes I think that the Bhore Committee which had laid down the backbone of the Indian Healthcare system had made recommendations to address the healthcare problems from the grassroots.We need to concentrate on the preventive and promotive aspects of the health of our population.Unfortunately,due to a lack of a multi sectoral approach to healthcare and vested interests of politicians and many other stakeholders, we have not been able to achieve the targets that were set in the National Health Policy of 1983 and maybe now that of 2002. All we need is a reorganization and redistribution of our resources and empowerment of the healthcare providers at the grass roots to make the system work efficiently.The structure of our healthcare system is excellent,it just needs some fine tuning.
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| 10 24 2008 17:23:59 +0000
Yes, you are absolutely right when you say new technologies and knowledge can not improve a system. It is the willingness of people who are part of system should try to improve. Again when you say visitors are coming, spending money, getting treated and leaving with a great impression, then let me make it clear that most of the visitors we are treating don’t come to India with an intention for getting medical aid. Infact the visitors that we treat are only people who are frustrated in their countries due to cost go to other countries not because of better system. Leave apart the visitors even the cream of our own country go to European countries for their own treatment so if this is the case then how can you say that we provide world class services. Its so unfortunate but at the same time very true.
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MUKESH JOSHI MBA(HCS), Admin/Facilities Manager, Forum Projects
| 10 18 2008 15:37:26 +0000
Ratnakar I will agree with you but the Indian Health system is achieving new heights that the whole world could learn from, We hope that as we go through this, We’re going to show that the Indian Health system, the structure and the quality of care it delivers, all other components are really of world class, I think that the Indian Health system is really a quality organization that provides good care but cost factor has to come down such that it is in the reach of every one....
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Sudeep Tarafdar, Senior Consultant, IBM
| 09 24 2008 09:00:18 +0000
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No not at all every body is corrupted, Govt, Doctors, medicine manufacturer. every Indian is a buyer for them nothing else. They plane first and then create havoc among public with the help of media and doctors then come with what they have ready for the market to sell. They achieve there sale target and earn mouth full of profit like any flue and fly away like swine.
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Vinod Sauhta, Assistant General Manager Operation, PSL Ltd.
| 04 06 2010 09:35:15 +0000
No not at all every body is corrupted, Govt, Doctors, medicine manufacturer. every Indian is a buyer for them nothing else. They plane first and then create havoc among public with the help of media and doctors then come with what they have ready for the market to sell. They achieve there sale target and earn mouth full of profit like any flue and fly away like swine.
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Vinod Sauhta, Assistant General Manager Operation, PSL Ltd.
| 04 06 2010 09:34:31 +0000
No not at all every body is corrupted, Govt, Doctors, medicine manufacturer. every Indian is a buyer for them nothing else. They plane first and then create havoc among public with the help of media and doctors then come with what they have ready for the market to sell. They achieve there sale target and earn mouth full of profit like any flue and fly away like swine.
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Vinod Sauhta, Assistant General Manager Operation, PSL Ltd.
| 04 06 2010 09:33:04 +0000
To be frank we do not have any controle on health care sytem/magement. In india you can sell anything in the name of madicine. The prohibited medicine are in medical stores which baned in most of the developed contries. Medical mafia has full controle wiyh the help of medical practinioners as wel as the political position holder of indian medcal council or association. Ouer health is in the hand of medical mafia. WHO and words top madicine manufacturer jointly see INDIA a market and they first create a hovac with the help of Curupt indian media (who without confirming the fact) in the public and then sell the desired product with preplanned way. The complete sytem is currupted, Goverment, Doctors, and medicine manufacturer. they only care about GDP (more the sale more is the GDP).
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Vinod Sauhta, Assistant General Manager Operation, PSL Ltd.
| 04 06 2010 09:23:25 +0000
IT is the number game - controlled enrollment in Medical education both UG and PG level has created such a mess. Why have this control in the guise of protecting quality. If a state can have 400+ engineering colleges then why only less than 10 medical colleges. This control has to be decontrolled. Let there be freedom to start medical colleges and hospitals and the best will survive. States like TN is opening medical colleges attached with hospital in every district and they should be equal number from the private sector. Small UT of Pondicherry has more private medical colleges than the number of such institutions in bigger states. Why have permit raj when other sectors including banks and insurance have been opened up for fierce competition. Till such time Indian Medical/Health sector will continue to suffer and it is accessible only to rich. Like our leadership in ITES space, India can become global centre for quality medical treatment, if the government does away with controls and liberalise the norms interms of student / professor ratios.
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Prasad PN, Consultant, Trainer
| 11 20 2009 19:44:34 +0000
yes i do agree with u mr nagrajan and charles.. its the commercialization phase of health care industry.. and good and best health care is for the person with pocket full of money.
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varsha , Head/VP/GM-Quality, frac
| 11 20 2009 17:30:42 +0000
Indian Healthcare system is a long way from standardization as per world standards, we have not even started implementing ICD codes in our system which will help indian and international citizens equally when they travel to india and vice versa. The common man has been left out of the system with no or limited access to quality treatment for critical illnesses which is a very un healthy practice in the industry
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Balaji Nagarajan, Sr Manager Marketing Services, Congruent Solutions Private Ltd
| 11 20 2009 15:11:36 +0000
I say that Indian health care is neither good for the rich nor for the poor. It serves only Itself.The moment MNC started coming in with their wares the specialist doctors fell prey to the remunerations and abandoned the Govt hospitals Earlier the govt hospitals had the best of the days equipment and the best of brains.NO doubt about it.I am a person who has taken advantage of it. Now with swarming in of MNC and costly equipment the cost of the medicine also became commercial and govt could not afford it. We cant blame the govt hospitals at all. they are helpless .Its the govt policies which is the culprit. These MNC hospitals are just squeezing the rich and making them poorer in health day by day.Its good that common man could not go to these hospitals.at least they will live with one disesase and die with it .Not so the rich and famous! they get disesase by the Q and die fattening the hospitals We shall debate on this separetely
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Charles davison, Project Manager, Douglas OHI LLC
| 10 07 2009 19:00:55 +0000
Indian healthcare is good for rich and upper middle class people only. For the lower class poor people and middle class society, its a burden of pains which squizes the last left coin from his pocket. The proof is the difference between our government and private hospitals. Government hospitals are the real face of "Public hospitals" in India. Everybody knows the standard of treatment there and the number of people staying alive after getting admitted there. Reversely, the private sector with all modern technology and the lest recorded death as compared to Government hospitals can nowhere be afforded by less income people. Its only for the rich. This is the real face of Healthcare systems in India...
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Sanjay Saha, Product/Brand Manager, Dr Reddy Labs
| 10 07 2009 12:29:45 +0000
THE INDIAN HEALTH SYSTEM IS STILL POOR TO SAY THE LEAST.PROBABLY WE ARE MAINTAINING DUAL STANDARDS WHEN WE PROJECT OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE PRINT MEDIA OR FOR THAT MATTER THROUGH TELEMEDIA.ON ONE HAND WE PROJECT OF MEDICAL TOURISM AND ON THE OTHER JUST PEEP IN SOME NEARBY CIVIL HOSPITAL OF YOUR CITY.YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELF THE SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS.NO MATTER THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM OF A NATION SHOULD BE JUDGED BY THE STATE OF HEALTH OF ITS NATIVE CITIZENS POOR OR RICH ALIKE.ANOTHER INTERESTING THING .HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF VASCULAR SURGERY FOR EXAMPLE AS A SURGICAL SPECIALITY.AS A VASCULAR SURGEON I CAN SAY IT EMPHATICALLY THAT MOST OF THE MEDICAL FRATERNITY STILL DOES NOT KNOW WHAT VASCULAR SURGERY IS AND WHO EXACTLY IS A VASCULAR SURGEON.SO IN A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WHERE MEDICAL FRATERNITY IS STILL NOT UPTODATE WITH WHO IS WHAT CANNOT BE TERMED GOOD BY ANY MEANS.IS AVERAGE THE RIGHT WORD?I HAVE MY DOUBTS.
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dr gaurav singal, Sr.consultant and chief, Ivy hospital
| 10 06 2009 14:18:52 +0000
The poor and middle class can only go to BMC & Govt Hosp.The A Grade Hosp attract medical tourism, mediclaim, & medical insurance
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beryl dmonte, Freelancer, Freelancer
| 09 22 2009 19:12:35 +0000
Are we concerned about the treatment of foreighners? Do we need to provide facilities to them? What about a common Indian man. We have 5 star infrastructure in many hospitals but can an common Indian afford it? 3 patients on one bed in Govt hospitals and a big room with 5 star amenities for an insured person in big hospitals. Those who have insurance cashless cards enjoy the benefits in all big hospitals where you do not get a room and average man doen not get entry to general wards in these hospitals. What is world class service? It should be that the whole world appreaciates that all facilities are available to all persons in the country at minimal cost but in 3 tier system. Level 1 (peripheral), level 2 (middle) and level 3 (Central) and these are allotted by the centralized system. A medical card is issued to all. No treatment without that card. We should learn from European system. Here every one decides where to go and whom to consult. It becomes a rat race. The system needs a complete reformation.
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Dr Satish Gosain, Medical Superintendent/Director, Dr Bharti Nursing Home
| 06 18 2009 16:09:42 +0000
Definately I support Dr Satish Gosain's argument still a lot needs to be done in the Indian Healthcare Sector and all those arguments that we provide world class services is humburg the only reason why india is a preffered destination is its much cheaper in here obviously because the services that we provide is the most 3rd class, whoever says that we provide world class services must even forget about EU countries and go to bangkok there you see what world class services means. Moreover for your surprise let me tell you that even the cream class of Bangladeshis dont come to India for their treatment and we shout all about world class.
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MUKESH JOSHI MBA(HCS), Admin/Facilities Manager, Forum Projects
| 06 18 2009 15:21:15 +0000
You have to differentiate between healthcare system and healthcare itself. India might become a giant in healthcare but whole system is inefficient. New technologies and knowledge can not improve a system. it is the willingness of people who are part of system should try to improve. Visitors are coming, spending money, getting treated and leaving with a great impression.It is true only untill we are handling limited number of visitors. Think about our own people. No money-no treatment. System should not be biased. I don't think system can even take heavy load of visitors. Only people who are frustrated in their countries due to cost go to other countries not because of better system. As an indian I feel that our global exposure is very limited and we think as if we are best and we can show to the world. This is not right feeling. Our Indian phylosophy is best that work hard but don't be egoistic.
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vipul , Director, Dental Services, St Benard Hospital
| 10 01 2008 12:01:48 +0000
The poor quality of India's government health care system, diseases that have declined in many developing countries continue to be common here, Studies indicate that government spending on health care has decreased of the country's total health expenditure (both public and private). Their efforts to improve efficiency in the health care system is in vein.
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Ratnakar Naik, General Practitioner, Apollo Group
| 09 24 2008 08:20:50 +0000
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