K’taka medical act draft rules watered down, biased towards private hospitals: Activist

Health The draft rules are “like a collaboration with the private medical establishments”, said one public health expert. Reshma Ravishanker The draft rules of the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (Amendment) Act have now been put on the public domain. This comes following a review meeting with the stakeholders. Health activists strongly believe that the draft...

Private Hospitals, Including Fortis, Making Profits up to 1737%: Drug Price Regulator’s New Study

Link BY ANOO BHUYAN ON 21/02/2018 • 1 COMMENT The regulator’s study shows that the major beneficiaries of profits from inflated prices have been hospitals and not patients or manufacturers. New Delhi: A study of the bills of four major private hospitals, conducted by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Agency (NPPA) following several cases of overpricing of medical bills, concluded that the...

Private Hospitals in India Making Profits up to 1737%

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Critique of the rules framed by the Health department, Government of Karnataka for the Amendments to the KPME

The rules look highly watered down. It doesn’t show the government to be in charge but rather like a collaborator with the private medical establishments.  There is no mention of what happens if these Rules are not implemented or would that come in the main Act and Amendments? There is still only a draft version...

Response of Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali to the Rules for KPME Amendments

KJC response to KPME Rules 2018 (2)

KPME Act and Mission Hospitals

Mission Hospitals in Karnataka was also watching closely the KPME Act and its implications for their Healthcare mission in Karnataka. The silence of this sector is reflection of how an important player in the Health Care Services in the State was sidelined in the policy making. After the government sector it was the Mission Hospital...

Draft KPME rules watered down: activists

KARNATAKA Draft KPME rules watered down: activists Afshan Yasmeen BENGALURU, FEBRUARY 24, 2018 23:16 IST Rules show importance of private sector participation in State’s healthcare, say private doctors The draft rules of the controversial Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (Amendment) Act, that have been put up on the public domain, again have health activists up in...

KPME: Access and cost of healthcare in the private

Shujayathulla E Research Assistant, Indian Social Institute, Bangalore      Date: 12-12-2017 The recent development in Karnataka on Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) amendment propelled me to compose this article. You would find qualitative analysis in this article, where I have gathered some information from respondents from varying backgrounds. I would not say whether the private doctors’...

Why are doctors not more unhappy about unhappy patients?

Dr. Sylvia Karpagam The article in Bangalore Mirror on the 28th of November by Dr. N Prabhudev          “Unhappy doctors, Unhappy patients’ requires another point of view. Dr. Prabhudev writes about many ‘characters’ in the ‘sad episode’ of the controversial KPME Act, with no one having ‘won’ in the end. He says patients died for want...

RAIDS AT IVF CENTRES

Link Bangalore Mirror Bureau | Updated: Dec 3, 2017, 08.31 AM IST Some of the files and reports found during the raid * I-T officials find unaccounted money and secret foreign accounts  * They also find documents pointing to a nexus between docs and labs Two of the top IVF centres of Bengaluru and the doctors attached...