Dwindling sex-ratio in Haryana, blame it on Delhi! The justification for the state’s skewed gender statistics can’t get easier. Then there are touts, greedy doctors, a failed ANM network and ineffective administrators which snuff the life out of an unborn girl child.
In districts where sex-ratio has plummeted in the last few years, including Jind, Mahendergarh, Rewari, Panchkula and Rohtak, the administration is quick to wash its hands off any responsibility.
“Delhi, with its lax laws and indifference to sex-determination clinics, is the real culprit. Truckloads of pregnant women, herded together from villages in areas close to the Capital, are taken to clinics where illegal Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) is performed,” says an official in Rohtak.
The same refrain finds echo in a number of other districts, especially those in the NCR region. It is an open secret in Rohtak that the easiest way to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy is to contact a tout. Mostly local men, who want to make quick money, act as touts. They keep track of the village demography and are always on the prowl for “dissatisfied” pregnant women and families craving for the birth of a boy.
“It’s all a day’s work and the quickest way to dump the unborn child. The data in Rohtak shows that areas towards Bhiwani are better off when it comes to the gender ratio than the areas close to Delhi which have a sex ratio as low as 680: 1,000 in some villages,” reveal health authorities.
In the Jat heartland of Jind, people have no qualms in admitting that a girl child is unwelcome. Like elsewhere in the state, here too, the ANM network has failed to deliver. Since the ANMs are local women, assigned the job to monitor the health of pregnant women and keep track of the pregnancy as it progresses, they can’t dare to pass on any information against the villagers.
“The ANM network can’t be expected to work at the village level because their hands are virtually tied. If they do dare to give information on a terminated pregnancy or a sex-determination test, the whole village will stand together and boycott the ANM. If she has to stay in the village, she can’t be expected to go against the villagers. There exists a tacit understanding between the villagers and the ANMs,” the authorities maintain.
Sources in the district administration of the worst-hit districts contend that there are some doctors plying mobile vans to carry out illegal MTPs in certain areas. “Our experience indicates that the women wanting to terminate their pregnancy usually never go to one doctor. They have a check-up at one place, prescription from another, various examinations from a third and so on. Some mobile vans were active in the Bhiwani-Narnaul area and occasionally visit villages to carry out MTPs. Pregnant women flock to these mobile clinics in the garb of checking foetus well-being (FWB) and get their job done,” reveals an official.
Then, the district administration has its own share of “black sheep” who work in connivance with these errant doctors and private clinics, supplying them information of sting operations and decoys, resulting in the failure of such operations while the guilty get away with impunity. Also, with a number of government agencies co-ordinating, regulation and monitoring gets diffused.
Health authorities opine that till the punishment for tests and illegal MTPs is not doctor-centric, people can’t be participants in a movement against the crime despite all the attempts to change mindsets.



(by GG)

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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.