Unethical Practices in Pvt Hospitals - Solutions
Below are the key issues and root causes related to unethical practices in private hospitals as identified by you. Kindly review and help identify specific solutions that must be implemented to address them.
The objective here would be to take this up with the Government and Regulators so key actions can be taken to address them.
Transparency International India
Unethical practices in Pvt Hospitals - Root Causes
1. Private hospitals are run like businesses
2. Head of departments are given revenue targets to achieve
3. The remuneration of the doctor is linked to the amount of revenue he makes for the hospital
4. Private hospitals have better and latest machinery which results in higher test rates
5. Hospital take insured patients as an opportunity to generate more revenue
6. Lack of strict laws against hospitals for misleading/over charging the customers
7. Cash payment is preferred to save on taxes
8. Branded medicines are prescribed instead of generic ones as the doctors and hospitals earn commission from these pharma companies
9. Private hospitals look at EWS patients as an expense and hence do not admit them easily
10. Most uneducated patients quietly follow everything a Doctor says due to lack of awareness
Unethical Practices in Pvt Hospitals – Issues
1. Patients are asked to take unnecessary tests
2. Rate of tests like MRI, CT scan etc. are way higher in private hospitals than outside
3. Many hospitals straight away suggest surgeries in case where it might not immediately be needed
4. If the patient has insurance, the hospitals keep them admitted for a longer duration of time and bills are inflated
5. Expensive steroid medicines are given
6. Patients are kept on ventilators even if there is no chance of recovery
7. Room rates in private hospitals are really high
8. Private clinic/hospital encourage to pay bills in cash and also give forged bill
9. In place of generic medicines, branded costlier medicines are recommended
10. People with health cards, medical insurances extra also lured into unnecessary treatments, procedures and surgeries
11. EWS patients are not given admissions easily. more
The objective here would be to take this up with the Government and Regulators so key actions can be taken to address them.
Transparency International India
Unethical practices in Pvt Hospitals - Root Causes
1. Private hospitals are run like businesses
2. Head of departments are given revenue targets to achieve
3. The remuneration of the doctor is linked to the amount of revenue he makes for the hospital
4. Private hospitals have better and latest machinery which results in higher test rates
5. Hospital take insured patients as an opportunity to generate more revenue
6. Lack of strict laws against hospitals for misleading/over charging the customers
7. Cash payment is preferred to save on taxes
8. Branded medicines are prescribed instead of generic ones as the doctors and hospitals earn commission from these pharma companies
9. Private hospitals look at EWS patients as an expense and hence do not admit them easily
10. Most uneducated patients quietly follow everything a Doctor says due to lack of awareness
Unethical Practices in Pvt Hospitals – Issues
1. Patients are asked to take unnecessary tests
2. Rate of tests like MRI, CT scan etc. are way higher in private hospitals than outside
3. Many hospitals straight away suggest surgeries in case where it might not immediately be needed
4. If the patient has insurance, the hospitals keep them admitted for a longer duration of time and bills are inflated
5. Expensive steroid medicines are given
6. Patients are kept on ventilators even if there is no chance of recovery
7. Room rates in private hospitals are really high
8. Private clinic/hospital encourage to pay bills in cash and also give forged bill
9. In place of generic medicines, branded costlier medicines are recommended
10. People with health cards, medical insurances extra also lured into unnecessary treatments, procedures and surgeries
11. EWS patients are not given admissions easily. more
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Private hospital rooms are costlier than hotels. In hotels you get 24*7 hot running water, room service, room cleaning service, drinking water for free. whereas in hospitals you are charged for every thing with foul smell coming from every where. Its day time looting. more
Jan 03
I have made complaint / issue highlighted since one year from local body of government,state government of Gujarat and up to city development ministry of Govt. Of India and subsequestly some dept.have been communicated to each other regarding clealiless issue in my area Kalali,Vadidara Gujarat due to illegal slum are using open area for toilet .But no one has able to come for any execution for the said problem (removal of encroachment) It is wonderful system.that one side every whete goverment are publishing the cleanliness slogans and other side responsible persons are not interested to work at all !! On 20 Jun 2016 11:09, "Transparency Intl India" < support@localcirclesmail.com> wrote: > more
Jun 28
Need to ask any plan from Govt of India or Ministry of Railway for cleanliness programme across the India on the railway tracks and along railway lines that will be thousands of km.area which are uncleaned since begining when railway started and no body knows when those area have been cleaned. No any such design has been developed so far in the train toilets where people stools will not spread all over along the tracks. Also lot of garbages thrown by the train passengers since long time along the train route, but no cleaning programme yet decided or no control at all to stop throw the rubbish. Even I have seen many times now a days in railway cleanining persons have collected the rubbish from comportments and throwing out when train is running. On 28 Jun 2016 21:37, wrote: I have made complaint / issue highlighted since one year from local body of government,state government of Gujarat and up to city development ministry of Govt. Of India and subsequestly some dept.have been communicated to each other regarding clealiless issue in my area Kalali,Vadidara Gujarat due to illegal slum are using open area for toilet .But no one has able to come for any execution for the said problem (removal of encroachment) It is wonderful system.that one side every whete goverment are publishing the cleanliness slogans and other side responsible persons are not interested to work at all !! On 20 Jun 2016 11:09, "Transparency Intl India" < support@localcirclesmail.com> wrote: more
Jun 28
in private hospitals there is a charge for every face that is looking at you. there is a charge for saying 'hello ow are u' specially in Apollo Bayanagaram.....every such face is 'specialist'......charges will not be told to you on person to person basis but only at the time of discharge. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Transparency Intl India < support@localcirclesmail.com> wrote: > more
Jun 23
- Medical education needs to be merit based. This a life service and there should be no compromise on the quality of doctors treating patients. - Reservation students should be given a 10% mark leeway but not more than that into medical colleges and once they have got admission they need to compete and pass with no additional sops as once they are in college all live and study in the same classrooms and hostels and therefore there should be no differentiation. - Medical exam bars should be set high and should be of international standards. - Private medical colleges should be monitored and regulated. A lot of medical colleges do not even have basic infrastructure to teach students. How are they allowed to function and are given affiliations to universities? All involved should be fired and punished as per law. - Selling of college seats and capitation fees should be stopped. To make up for money spent on getting a seat doctors resort to malpractice and unnecessary tests and medicines. - When the whole world knows who these colleges are and which hospitals are involved in malpractices it is amazing that the law has not found them. It is also a known fact that politics, justice and law are all involved and get a cut and therefor there is no interest and drive to stop this practice. more
Jun 22
