I was watching a Television chat show this Sunday, There was a man who had come to talk about his Episode with a hospital. His father felt sick and he went to a Government Hospital, the government hospital turned him down and asked him to go to a particular Private Hospital, he in a bid to save his fathers life lands there.
Now the Hospital asks him to pay 40,000 Initially, and he does, after a few days of fleecing him, the hospital finally declares that his father is dead, and all this four days he was not allowed to see the Father because they said that they don’t want anyone to get into the ICU when he was critically ill.
The hospital also slapped a bill of 2,25,000 on him, coming from a poor back ground, this was beyond his wildest dreams, but Luck favored him from inside, a insider nurse who saw his condition spilled the beans, ” your father has been dead for 2 days” this is the hospitals strategy to take money out of you?
Shocked? everyone in the forum was, But finally the whole village came with him and they fought with the hospital and they police and the hospital bargained and the people of the village collected money paid the one lakh and released the old mans body. I was really moved hearing this story.
on the contrary if you start thinking , i was wondering when we pay so much of taxes, arent we entitled to good health care? alteast in the cities we have some government hospitals, but in he rural areas i doubt if there is any access to health care?
Also, its so strange that to open a private hospital one does not need a license?
With so much of people, resources, I have one question to answer myself, why are we not able to provide health care services like the Private institutions do? Is it a nexus between the Government and the Private hospitals?
Who cares? as long as we make money we will pay it to the Private vendors who see health care not as a service but a large money making unit?
think , act
Joe
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