RE:Allow Private hospitals and Medical colleges
by Prakash Desai on Nov 23, 2007 04:36 AM Permalink
Dear Sir, Do you live in india or outside? For your information, india already has two tire medical system One is govt aided service, which includes hospitals operated by central govt, state govts, municipal corporations and up to "gram panchayat" operated dispensaries where all the staff is employed and paid by govt or mun. corp. And patients are charged at heavily subsidized rates (please, do not talk about level of services and waste space and time, everybody knows about it) And parallel to it is private hospitals, private practising doctors who do not get any financial assistance from govt and they do not provide any subsidized service. That means, medical service from private doctors and hospitals are more expensive Any citizen of our country is free to go for treatment to any of the service provider (govt or private) The same is true for medical colleges and medical education For your information, i repeat, private participation in medical service in our country already exists
RE:Allow Private hospitals and Medical colleges
by shiva on Nov 23, 2007 07:26 AM Permalink
Prakash Desai,
Appreciate your two postings. You have taken the trouble to be clear in your inputs, thereby enriching the info. I cannot say that for most of the others, who seem to shoot before they think.
We have many problems to take care of, top most being health & education. Basically, the efforts have to come from within the self, family etc, while the govt can be a facilitator with clear transparent functioning. They should provide the basic services so that nobody is denied them. Unfortunately for us, the individual and party come first and the common agenda is hanging on to power. We should get a certain inalienable agendas to be pursued whoever is in power, so that our lives are not threatened by diseases, terrorism etc.
I salute the private intiatives who even try to accomodate the poor who cannot afford, like the recent baby Lakshmi's case. Many of us want to help, but the system should enable us to channel our resources directly to benefit the poor.
RE:RE:Allow Private hospitals and Medical colleges
by AG on Nov 23, 2007 07:41 PM Permalink
Mr Shiva, Could not agree more, and the avenues exist. The NGO sector, The UN systems, The GOI initiatives. If one wants to help, then one may volunteer. We need clear thinking, honest people from all walks of life to help in the development of India. I am sure you can make a difference.
RE:Allow Private hospitals and Medical colleges
by shiva on Nov 24, 2007 07:25 PM Permalink
AG,
I do write out cheques to few. I want to do physically, but like most find working life, an excuse. I bow my head to those who do real work and do not expect any publicity. The world is still worth living and the newborns are at least loved by their mothers. We are all capable of great noble deeds. The rich will help provided they are not taken advantage of.
RE:Allow Private hospitals and Medical colleges
by Prakash Desai on Nov 27, 2007 04:28 AM Permalink
Dear Shiva, I also appreciate your views. I feel, in many subjects we share similar views and ideas. I liked your words ... the world is worth living ... and it is our responsibility to make worth liveable for next generations to come. One bitter reality of life is that everyboy needs money, without exception, to live a decent life. And all doctors are part of the same society. Still, I have seen many private practising doctors who simply forget unpaid money from poor patients. I whole heartedly salute those doctors, who provide subsidized treatment to poor,even today's time, without publicity. It just give them self satisfaction. If you see, many medical camps organized by many NGOs, most, rather all doctors give service there without any remuneration... and they all are private practising doctors. This is only one aspect of society life. If you walk around, you will find thousands or lakhs or crores of people who try to contribute to society. And as you said, the world is still liveable, because of such people. I may not be among them, but personally i always try my best to be among that class to make everybody's life worth liveable Regards Prakash Desai
RE:Allow Private hospitals and Medical colleges
by sanjay agarwal on Nov 23, 2007 07:24 AM Permalink
mr. desai, it seems either you work for government or you are a leftist you neither let any one speak o any one side, nor you ahve any ideas and solutions of your own. Dont be just a refereee, we i this country dont require them, they are plenty...
RE:Allow Private hospitals and Medical colleges
by Prakash Desai on Nov 24, 2007 03:16 AM Permalink
Dear Sanjay Agarwal Please note, my whole life I have worked only with private sector and never with govt. Next, I am not a leftist or communist. In fact, I am totally against leftist philosophy, which is my personal matter and I do not want to discuss it here. Generally, whenever any subject comes up in rediff, what happens is that most people take only one sided view. In a way, they may be right as they might have come across only one aspect related to that subject. But remember one thing in life, something good for one person need not be good for everybody or bad for one is not always bad for everybody. Purpose of the discussion is to bring up both the sides so that we can have better understanding of the subjects affecting real life of our people. It is not that I want to always criticise somebody. I just try to bring up a related aspect of the subject which I might have come across in my life time. And also, I not only try to post my views only, at the same time, in addition to the main article, I always read all the readers' postings and in many cases I come across more information from others which adds to my knowledge also. Next is analysis of the subject, for which everybody have different perception. The idea is to explore the subject from more than one angle so that we obtain more knowledge out of healthy discussion Regards Prakash Desai
