system. The health care sector is totally occupied by the profit thirst corporate health care.
No minimum infrastructure is available in Government hospitals. No medical instruments. The available instruments and machines will not be in working condition. All the departments run with scant number of doctors and medical personnel. We have witnessed the strike of junior doctors in government hospitals for cotton and spirit. We also know during Covid- 19 period, the ANMs in Telangana requested the government for the regularisation of their posts with which they can work with serious commitment but the government declined to accept the request. The X-ray machines are not in working condition. The private ambulances are needed to go to government hospitals. No medicines. We should purchase medicines in private shops that are established in the government hospitals. The drug control authorities have attacked private medical shops functioning in the big government hospitals in Hyderabad- Osmania, Gandhi and Niloufer- and could report so many deficiencies. No action on the frauds of private medical shops in the government hospitals. The people have no alternative except the profit hunger corporate hospitals. Therefore, their medical bills are sky rocketing. No measures to control it as the government says- the costly corporate treatment is great.
As per the National Sample Survey Report in 2014, during 2004-2014, rise in the medical costs for hospitalisation in urban areas is 176 percent and in rural areas it is 160 percent. This clearly shows the excessive rise in the corporate medical costs. Further, AON’ s Global Medical Trends Rates Report says that the rise in the average medical costs in India is 12 percent in 2024 and 13 percent in 2025. While the global average rise is only 10 percent. 4
The rise in the medical costs in India is more than the global average. The report of Policy Bazaar on how India buys Insurance 2.0, says that the inflation in health sector is excessively high when compared to the growth rate in wages as well as general rise in the prices. The survey further says that the medical cost of cancer treatments and heart surgeries vary between Rs 30- 50 lakhs while it is at least Rs 1 crore for the treatment of Hepatitis C, human organ replacement. However, the report says no guarantee for the survival of the patient. Prior to the formulation of National Health Policy 2017 which is to strengthen the corporatisation of health care services, the union Health minister said that as many as 63 million people( 6.3 crore) will be pushed into poverty each year( as per the data from 2011-12) owing to the high medical costs. As the total empire of health services is in the control of corporate hospitals due to the destruction of public health system, the“ treatment exploitation” of corporate hospitals has reached its peak. It is actually true. Corporate Hospitals- Treatment- Scams / Frauds:
As the real goal of the corporate hospitals is to earn the highest possible profits it will result in the demise of relevant treatment to cure the patient. The loot of the patient will become a reality in the name of quality treatment. The corporate hospitals could mould the treatment as a powerful tool of exploitation. Each and every aspect related to treatment such as diagnostic tests, prescriptions, medicines, surgeries, implants, organ replacements etc., will become the means of exploitation.
The 92 nd report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee, in March 2016 has revealed clearly that the Indian health care system is at the edge of collapse. The report has taken into consideration the research and investigation findings of the BMJ Global Health, India
Today etc. The report has stated that as high as 44 percent surgeries in India are unnecessary, fake and fraudulent. The report bluntly says that 55 percent of heart surgeries, 48 percent of hysterectomy surgeries, 47 percent of cancer surgeries, 48 percent of knee replacement surgeries, 45 percent spine surgeries and C-section deliveries in India are unnecessary and fake.
According to the BMJ Global Health report which surveyed the reputed hospitals in Maharashtra has stated that the senior doctors who push unnecessary diagnostic tests, treatments, hospitalisation and surgeries will be given a monthly salary to the tune of Rs 1 crore. Thus, the functioning of the corporate hospitals is closely connected to the frauds.
Various reports including the report of‘ The Times of India’ could show innumerable cases where the corporate hospitals show the dead patient as alive and collect lakh of rupees in the name of tests, medicines and surgeries. According to the Document-1 of worldbank. org, November 2018, the health care systems in India are highly vulnerable and the diagnosis, prescriptions are totally opposing the interests of people which is seriously harmful to the People’ s Right to Health and Right to Life.
The commercial values will be the center for profits and therefore the human rights, human values will not come under this purview. Thousands of crores worth of rupees of scam related to human organ trafficking in so many reputed hospitals became a normal phenomenon. These cases are to the tune of 2250 in the last year. The Telangana stood first in these scams with 391 cases.‘ The Indian Express’ could reveal this kind of scam worth thousands of crores of rupees in 2019 in a highly reputed Fortis Hospital in Delhi. The doctors, medical personnel and police are involved in this scandal. The
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