AN EMAIL ON THE ROT IN HOSPITALS.
i am sorry about your experience and the pain of your loss, Col Chandra.
however i would like to tell you that i have experienced the same in max superspeciality saket delhi and at national heart institute lajpat nagar 4 new delhi and Apollo cancer hospital chennai.
friends have experienced this in other hospitals.
this is the commericial trend that is dominant these days and we have to find a means of tackling this menace.
i would like to point out that i have had in recent recent years very positive experience in AIIMS and Safdarjang hospitals on sudden emergency admission.
however i have not recovered from the pain of 1966 when the junior staff, the nurses and sweepers at Safdarjang demanded bribes from the poorest general ward patients to send files x-rays and test reports on to the doctors... even for each glass of drinking water.
greed is common and not confined to one place or strata or time period.
the current big money formula in hospitals involving the medical fraternity needs to be curbed. the agony your family went through is multiplied many times each day in multiple places across the country. this agony can only bring bad times for the nation at levels beyond our imagination.
please let us collectively think of ways to change the trend.
regards
bharati more