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The coronavirus pandemic holds many lessons for India, primary among which is the need for a robust public health system. In times of crisis, the private sector healthcare industry can and surely will help but the brunt must be borne by the government sector, which operates beyond the dictates of profitability and with a freedom mandated by the fact that it is an arm of the government.
Buy Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India Book Online at Low Prices in India
For every story of optimism about the growth of medical tourism to India, there are multiple others about medical neglect. Scratch the surface and you find a thick layer of corruption in this life-sustaining sector. This hard-hitting volume shows a mirror to society and, more specifically, to those associated with the health sector on how healers, in many cases, are shifting shape to becoming predators.
The research output from Indian medical institutions between 2005 and 2014
Publication HistoryPublished online: April 18, 2016Accepted: April 5, 2016; Received: March 23, 2016;
Practising surgery in India | OUPblog
Being a surgeon in India is very different and probably more interesting than being one anywhere else in the world. Not only are there the usual third world problems to deal with like poor, undernourished patients with advanced diseases who throng the underfunded public hospitals but there is now, in stark contrast, a for-profit and thriving expensive private health sector to which, in spite of its obvious shortcomings, three quarters of the patients go first.
On the brink of conflict: the people of South Asia deserve better
Nearly two decades ago, coinciding with overt nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan and India, we highlighted in The BMJ the huge risks of beginning a nuclear race in the subcontinent1 and its massive costs.2 Today, South Asia is once again at the brink of conflict, with massive deployment of armies on the borders between Pakistan and India.
World Medical Association’s tainted president, Ketan Desai
In the not too distant past, Indian doctors suspected the ethical principles of the country’s medical council, but they always respected those of the World Medical Association (WMA). After all, the WMA, formed on 18 September 1947—barely a month after India gained independence—represented 27 national medical associations, all of which were of solid repute.
Twelve years on: a call for papers for another special collection of articles on South Asia
Twelve years ago we published a special theme issue of The BMJ on South Asia,1 the first time that the journal had devoted a full issue to a region outside Europe. Bringing together scientists and health professionals at a time of conflict in South Asia, the theme issue covered a range of topics relevant to the region. It argued that while politics divide us, opportunities exist for people to unite across borders to tackle common health challenges. Much has changed in 12 years.
A radical prescription for the Medical Council of India
In 2014, The BMJ launched a campaign against corruption that sparked global interest in the rampant practices of kickbacks for referrals, revenue targets in corporate hospitals, and capitation fees in private medical colleges in India.1 2 3 Change will take time, but a recent standing committee report to the Indian parliament provides reassurance.
Corruption: medicine’s dirty open secret
Anita Jain, India editor1, Samiran Nundy, dean 2, Kamran Abbasi, international editor1 1The BMJ, London WC1H 9JR, UK 2Ganga Ram Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, New Delhi, India kabbasi{at}bmj.com Doctors must fight back against kickbacks Healthcare is a high risk sector for corruption. Best estimates are that between 10% and 25% of global spend on public procurement of health is lost through corruption.1 This is big bucks.
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