How many drips you think a patient can be administered in a day? Well, if you are admitted to any of the corporate hospitals, the count could range between 30 and 40! Not humanly possible, but this is what a bill given to a patient at a renowned hospital in Mohali showed.
At times, inflated hospital bills include charges for medicines the patient never uses, investigations that are never conducted, charges for doctors who never visit and even implants that are not inserted. All these are components of an inflated billing system in most private hospitals.

In case a patient who has undergone cardiac surgery complains of stomach ache, he would have to pay separately for a gastroenterologist’s visit. Reason: the development is not part of the cardiac package. Similarly, even for a minor headache another doctor’s visit would be charged. And for patients who are uneducated or from rural areas or are not alert enough to understand what is going on, the doctor need not visit at all but the patient is still charged.

A patient in the emergency or in the intensive care unit (ICU) is sitting duck for such hospitals. All sorts of unwanted investigations and medicines are prescribed as in that state the possibility of the patient or his attendants raising an objection to any expenditure is the least.

“In many cases, we have even discovered that the investigations, which have been billed to the patient during his hospital stay, have not even been carried out and fake reports have been generated to complete the paperwork,” pointed out a third party administrator for a health insurance company.

Medicines, drips and consumables worth thousands are billed to the patient while he is admitted in the hospital. “Whether these were actually used by the patient can only be verified by an educated and alert attendant but in situations where attendants are not allowed to be with the patient the hospital is free to write anything as part of the bill,” added a patient who has filed a case in the consumer court against a private hospital for overcharging him.

One hospital in Mohali bills patients on basis of their “paying capacity”. “If a patient has asked for a single room admission, it is obvious he can pay. Hence, all sorts of frivolous charges are added to the patient’s bill. Our hospital was till recently charging VAT from patients!” revealed a doctor employed in the hospital.

The fleecing starts at the point where a patient is asked if his health is insured and for how much. Patients who come to the hospital for cashless treatment through insurance companies are liable to be charged almost three times more for the same treatment that a self-paying patient has to pay. “Whatever the problem, if a patient tells the hospital that he is insured for let’s say Rs 3.5 lakh, the bill would be around this figure,” said the third party administrator, adding that 85 per cent of the bills he got for investigations were inflated.
(TT)

For six days, Sukhjinder Kaur (32) fought for life, struggling for every breath, on and off ventilators in an air-conditioned intensive care unit of a top-notch corporate hospital, where when she died, all she begged for was one last meeting with her seven-year-old daughter.

Sukhjinder Kaur’s husband, a truck driver from Barnala, did not have time to even cry over her dead wife. He was busy selling his ancestral house in the village to pay Rs 6 lakh in hospital bills as without paying them his wife’s body would not be handed over.

Sukhjinder had walked into this hospital 10 days ago with an infected wound. She was admitted to a ward and after a few days she was shifted to the ICU where her condition deteriorated. Nothing seemed to be working on her. The antibiotic shots she was being given thrice a day proved useless.

The truth is that they did not prove useless…they were useless. As useless as an injection filled with water would be in such a case.

Use of substandard medicines, consumables and even implants like stents and ‘joints’ by some of the largest private hospitals is one of the most well kept secrets of the corporate healthcare system. And all this is done in active connivance with small companies manufacturing these medicines and equipment.

The injections, given to Sukhjinder Kaur and hundreds like her daily, had cost the hospital about Rs 30 while the patient is charged on the MRP, which could be Rs 300. And while an expensive drug from the patient’s point of view is a mark of good quality, in reality the drug is ineffective.

Other than antibiotics where the scope of using substandard brands is the highest, there is a big rip-off in cardiac stents and joint implants. Stents cost anything from Rs 13,000 to Rs 75,000. Chinese stents cost even less.

But every big hospital charges more than Rs 1 lakh to the patient as the cost of the stent. With margins as high as this, quality is the first thing to be compromised for easy profits. When a patient is admitted, he is given no choice by the hospital authorities to buy his own medicine or choose the implant. He has to just pay up at the counter and “everything else is taken care of.”

Other things used during in-patient care like bandages, cotton, syringes are bought by hospitals from non-descript manufacturers keeping the phenomenal margins in mind. The patient, however, is charged on the MRP with no guarantee of the quality of the product. A surgeon in one of the major corporate hospitals here admitted that the hospital chose to use very low quality suturing threads which often leads to infection in the stitches.

And since there is no check by any regulating authority on the quality of the products that these hospitals use, the patient’s life is at the mercy of the of the goodness of the hospital authorities.

People say ''Never expect anything in return from anyone''.
But the truth is, When we really like someone, we naturally expect a little in return.

A private doctor in Baddi calls up his medical college classmate serving in a private hospital in Mohali. “I am referring a brain dead patient to you. I have made enough money from him, now you can keep him for a few days,” is his request.
What has happened to the Hippocratic oath, one wonders.
Doctors working towards meeting “targets” are almost every corporate hospital’s success mantra. The salary of a doctor, his promotion, his foreign trips, his media exposure can all depend on the number of surgeries he performs, stents he implants, tests he prescribes...or in other words how “lucrative” he is to the organization.
“It is said about a cardiac hospital here that one should never go to them towards the month-end when doctors are under tremendous pressure to meet targets. There is a possibility of their operating on perfectly healthy persons,” said a Mohali resident.
Such “target doctors” are paid a certain amount as retainer ship for a fixed number of procedures.If the doctor is unable to bring in this minimum number of patients, his retainer-ship is liable to be reduced accordingly. In some hospitals, this target is fixed for the whole year but in some cases it has to be met each month. And ifa doctor wishes to earn beyond his retainer ship, he has to somehow get more patients.
“The result invariably is that gullible patients going for out-patient check-ups for minor problems end up being told how serious their condition was and how important it was to get admitted. Once the patient is admitted, he is the goose that would lay a golden egg everyday for the hospital,” said a doctor working in one such hospital. Other than “target doctors”, hospitals also have medical officers employed on fixed salary. They are generally ill-paid and in several cases not even proficient. Hospitals are known to have on their rolls doctors with questionable degrees and even unrecognized degrees. An allopathic hospital here has Ayurveda doctors working for it as senior residents.
Yet another category of doctors in private hospitals is the “consultants” category. They are not on the rolls of the hospital but are merely associated with them. The understanding with them varies from hospital to hospital but most of them allege that while the patient is charged a large amount as “consultant fee”, what they get from the hospital is slashed to 30 per cent of what the patient has paid.
Doctors working privately are otherwise rarely on the receiving end. Pharmaceutical companies offer them the world to convince them to prescribe their medicines and starting from the television, the fridge, the washing machine, down to the pen they are using are “gifts” from companies. For doctors with higher “prescription capacity”, foreign trips, attendance to international conferences, memberships to exclusive clubs are provided for by these companies. Interestingly, such medicines are rarely available beyond the drug store within the hospital or clinic.(TT)

A man is declared dead when his heart ceases to beat
&
and a woman when her tongue ceases to move!

Gandhi's life-long quest to eliminate all sexual desire from his
being prompted him to try experiments which even troubled his
followers. For instance, while touring Noakhali to calm
Hindu-Muslim communal passions, Gandhi shared his bed every night
with his 19-year-old great-niece and constant companion, Manu.

This greatly shocked his followers and one of them, Nirmal Kumar
Bose, who worked closely with Gandhi during the months of 1946-47,
mentioned this in a letter he wrote to another troubled associate.
Bose wrote: "When I first learnt in detail about Gandhi's prayog or
experiment, I felt genuinely surprised. I was informed that he
sometimes asked women to share his bed and even the cover which he
used, and tried to ascertain if even the least trace of sensual
feeling had been evoked in himself or his companion.

"Personally, I would never tempt myself like that; nor would my
respect for a woman's personality permit me to treat her as an
instrument of an experiment undertaken only for my own sake. But
when I learnt about this technique of self-examination employed by
Gandhiji, I felt that I had discovered the reason why some regarded
Gandhiji as their private possession, this feeling often leading
them to a kind of emotional imbalance. The behaviour of A, B, or C,
for instance, is no proof of a healthy psychological relationship.

"Whatever may be the value of the prayog on Gandhiji's own case, it
does leave a mark of injury on the personality of others who are
not of the same moral stature as he himself is, and for whom
sharing in Gandhiji's experiment is no spiritual necessity."

These paragraphs come from a book. My days with Gandhi, that Bose
wrote in 1953. But before mailing this letter, Bose showed it to
Gandhi and Gandhi replied that his self-examination was part of his
dharma. It lid not imply any assumption of a woman's authority.
Gandhi replied to Bose thus: "I believed in a woman's perfect
equality with man. My wife was 'inferior' when she was the
instrument of my lust. She ceased to be that when she lay with me
naked as my sister. If she and I were not lustfully agitated in our
minds and bodies, the contact raised both of us ...

"I do hope you will acquit me of having any lustful designs upon
women or girls who have been naked with me. .

A campaign of calumny began against him and news of his sleeping
with Manu spread intense shock among Congress leaders in Delhi
waiting to begin their critical talks with India's new Viceroy.
Gandhi remained untroubled. He calmed his immediate followers in
Noakhali, but when he sent his views to his newspaper, Harijan,
about why Manu shared his bed, the storm broke out again. Two of
Harijan's editors quit in protest. Its trustees, fearful of a
scandal, did something they had never dreamed of doing before. They
refused to publish the text written by the Mahatma.

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre record in Freedom at Midnight
that a series of emissaries discreetly asked Gandhi to abandon his
relationship with Manu. But he refused. He had to leave for Bihar
and he said he would take Manu along with him. Finally, Manu
herself suggested to Gandhi that they suspend the practice.

Gandhi's association with young women in his last years has been
documented by several writers. One of them was Margaret
Bourke-White, a photographer of Life magazine, who spent several
months in India in the tumultuous months before Independence. In
her book, Halfway to Freedom, Bourke-White wrote that in 1946,
Gandhi used to receive daily two-hour massages from Sushila or one
of his other women in his ashram. A few decades later, American
writer Ronald Segal wrote in is book, Criss of India, that Gandhi's
close association with women was frequently harmful to them. Many
of them became neurotic, few of them married or even led normal or
apparently contented lives. One of them, according to Bourke-White,
was Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur, India's first health minister, who left
her home at a young age to spend the next 30 years around the
Mahatma. A woman friend of Raj Kumari told Bourke-White that Raj
Kumari's first meeting with Gandhi "almost made a slave of her".

Source - Many

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