Final bill settlement by hospitals on demise of pa
We all have been coming across the huge amount being charged by corporate hospitals towards medical treatment. No doubt the hospitals are also pretending to be starred hotels alike business. Whether it is an ethical or unethical is matter of debate. Meanwhile we are also coming across the incidences wherein the patients have been died but the discharge awaits final payment settlement. In my view the final bill of the dying patient may not be exceeding few hubdred or thousand rupees as hospitals are best operational operndii of depositing interim payments from time to time. I personally feel the hospitals in its professional and humantarian grounds should not demand at all for the final payment if any from the relatives and that could be the best tribute from the hospitals to the departing souls as well as relief to the family who have lost near and dear ones. What do you feel on this feeling? more
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Health and education must be with government. Education and health make healthy and intelligent voters/ citizens .May be educated voters are not good for politicians. That is why health and education is in the hands of private people. more
Apr 24
All the hospitals must immediately be taken over by the government. No private hospital should be allowed at all. Those who want private treatment can go abroad. Lastly, people should just leave the dead body in the hospital and they can recover from the patient their unethical charges. Personally witnessed many cases where they unnecessarily load the dead patient's body with gadgets just to charge the family.And they don't reply to your questions but show extreme impatience and being busyness. India lacks courageous doctors who will bring all these tactics by writing a book to the notice of the public and the govt. Doctors appear to have great unity in exploitation and thuggery. Many times young doctors have told me that hospitals, even when they know the patient is dead, will continue to give treatment and keep on artificial respiration and other treatment just to make a bill fatter by another lakh or so. There is no nobility left in the profession. It's simple since they treat all kinds of people, they have all kinds of people in their roll to threaten other doctors and others. more
Mar 13
These hospitals make survey before admitting the patient and locate their kith and kin to settle the bill using the relations ship ego in their favor . so the kith ad kin will have to borrow and pay then only they get the body that is the status of the dead in our culture. The hospitals first interview they get hte family status and back ground and use that as arm twisting point. they never admit patients from poor or downtrodden families or who do not have any relatives to settled the bill more
Mar 12
In my view, most of the private big hospitals are five star hotels. Govt should put some restriction on them Dr N C Jain more
Mar 12
Who pays for health care? Options include-- patients ( costly affair), insurance ( most Indians do not opt for it), Govt ( it barely spends 1% of GDP cf. 6-14% by most other comparable economies) of a charity NGO. We all know the conditions of Govt run organizations-- railways, airlines, telecom --list is really long. Do we want a treatment where there is no accountability-- no compensation for wrong or negligent treatment? of course, there has be a check at the cost charged and fore that a strong regulatory system is needed. At least Govt should pay to the hospitals some charges towards the terminal or life support care. As per the law--including SC of India judgement, huge penalty and compensation is a possibility in case of unilateral withdrawal of various services. so, the best option to my mind is your next door GP and his assessment where to take in an emergrncy. more
Mar 13
Hospitals are no more charitable organisations, but purely commercial to exploit the public, as because the government hospitals are either scarce and not upto the standard or totally poor in their service. Government is also not bothered about the charges of private hospitals nor coming out with any guidelines. Hence, the public are suffering. more
Mar 11
