| Sunday, February 11, 2007 |
| Inhumane treatment by Hospitals |
 The recent news about a hospital refusing to hand over the dead body to the relatives for not settling the dues, shows a total insensitivity on the part of the hospital authorities. This has also brought to light some other issues of similar nature.Large hue and cry has been raised towards this inhumane attitude of the hospitals.
The question now comes to one's mind is - Were the hospital authorities justified in their action? Is there any solution to such issues?
Considering the fact that the hospital authorities were justified in demanding their just dues, the method of raising the demand by withholding the dead body was not a correct stand . In other cases, when the patient is refused the discharge for non-payment of the dues, the authorities are quite justified in their demands.
In case of such sensitive issues the hospitals should show some human considerations and should work out some ways of getting the dues cleared from the relatives at some later date.It will not be proper to expect the hospitals to waive off such dues because there will be endless number of such cases by which the hospitals may incur huge losses.
Then what is the other solution ? One has to admit that the hospitalization bills for some of the major illnesses in private hospitals run in some lacs of rupees which is quite beyond the limits of any common man. There had been instances of the families having gone bankrupt in meeting the huge hospital bills.Knowing these facts the people do opt for private hospitals for the simple reason that they are not quite satisfied with the medical facilities and the treatment given in Government hospitals.
In order to see that the medical and hospitalization expenses are brought within the reach of the common man, the government has either got to upgrade the medical facilities and equipments in these government hospitals and also to see that expert medical services are made available at par with the private hospitals.The other way is for the government to introduce a Social Security System, as in case of western countries, whereby the government takes care of the medical expenses under this scheme subject to the fulfillment of certain conditions.
No doubt, both these measures cannot be achieved that easily and will require tremendous efforts,planning and lot of finance. However, a start in either way will definitely help in achieving the goal to a larger extent in the long run.Labels: Social |
posted by Ajitkumar Wagle @ 9:02 PM  |
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Its sad how after 60 years of independence we have no healthcare support to speak of. I think we believe that there are too many of us and if one or two die, then it doesnt really make any difference. Lets not blame the government alone, but have we also not become immune to the loss of lives that happen in India on a regular basis?
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Its sad how after 60 years of independence we have no healthcare support to speak of. I think we believe that there are too many of us and if one or two die, then it doesnt really make any difference. Lets not blame the government alone, but have we also not become immune to the loss of lives that happen in India on a regular basis?