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...

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...

ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ ಖಾಸಗೀಕರಣ ಕೇಂದ್ರದ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವಕ್ಕೆ ವಿರೋಧ

Link ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಪ್ರಜಾವಾಣಿ ವಾರ್ತೆ 1 Dec, 2017 ‘ಉತ್ತಮ ಸೇವೆ ಒದಗಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗಳನ್ನು ಖಾಸಗಿಯವರಿಗೆ ಒಪ್ಪಿಸುವಂತಹ ನೀತಿ ಆಯೋಗದ ನಿರ್ಧಾರ ಸರಿಯಲ್ಲ. ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಹಕ್ಕು. ಖಾಸಗಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಸರಿಸಮಾನವಾಗಿ ಬಡವರಿಗೆ ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸೂಪರ್ ಸ್ಪೆಷಾಲಿಟಿ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ ಕೊಡುವುದು ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಉದ್ದೇಶವಾಗಬೇಕು... http://vuukle.com/widgets/powerbar.aspx?id=pv_story_536934&host=prajavani.net&url=http://www.prajavani.net/news/article/2017/12/01/536934.html&api_key=00082d40-753c-4254-9856-d17e10a0ce50&article_title=%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B2%E0%B2%BE%20%E0%B2%86%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AA%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%86%20%E0%B2%96%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A3%20%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A6%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A6%20%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%86%20%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%A7&vuukle_strings=&vuukle_div=vuukle_div ಕೆ.ಆರ್. ರಮೇಶ್ ಕುಮಾರ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು: ಜಿಲ್ಲಾ ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗಳನ್ನು ಭಾಗಶಃ ಖಾಸಗೀಕರಣಗೊಳಿಸುವ ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ನೇತೃತ್ವದ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವಕ್ಕೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ತೀವ್ರ ಆಕ್ಷೇಪ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಪಡಿಸಿದೆ. ಎರಡು ಮತ್ತು ಮೂರನೆ...

Medical tourism in India: winners and losers

EDITORIAL Amit Sen Gupta Promoted by the government and fuelled by the corporate boom in medical care, India is increasingly seen as the favoured destination of “medical tourists” who cross national boundaries to seek treatment that is cheaper than in their home countries. Medical tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry promoted by governments and the...

Shetty hospital falls way short of goals

LINK Cayman News | 24/03/2016 | 148 Comments (CNS): Expectations regarding the launch of medical tourism with the opening of Health City Cayman Islands in East End have so far failed to materialise some two years after the hospital founded by Dr Devi Shetty opened. But the Public Accounts Committee also heard from witnesses this month that the...

The Indian Medical Association Should Stop Playing Victim

BY SANJAY NAGRAL ON 20/07/2015 • 4 COMMENTS Link The citizen is being shortchanged by the medical fraternity, but try telling the IMA that A few paragraphs in a social sciences textbook of the NCERT for Class VII is hardly the kind of writing that makes major news. But when the Indian Medical Association (IMA) petitions the Prime Minister objecting to...

Is the National Health Insurance Scheme in Chhattisgarh Doing More Damage Than Good?

Link By Sulakshana Nandi on 03/11/2017 • Leave a Comment Studies from Chhattisgarh and other states show that most private hospitals force people to pay additional money even after using health insurance. The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) or the National Health Insurance Scheme, was initiated in Chhattisgarh in 2009 for below poverty line (BPL) families. In 2012, Chhattisgarh expanded...

Hospitals list rate flaws for feedback Sanjay Mandal July 9: The state government has extended the time for private hospitals to officially give feedback and suggestions on fixing rates for treatment and levying non-medical or incidental charges on patients. The state health regulatory commission recently issued a notice stating that private hospitals would have to send...

ಬಿಜಿಎಸ್‌ ಗ್ಲೋಬಲ್‌ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಾಯಿ ಶವಕ್ಕಾಗಿ 36 ಗಂಟೆಗಳಿಂದ ಕಾಯುತ್ತಿದೆ ಕಂಪ್ಲಿಯ ಬಡ ಕುಟುಂಬ

Home  COVER STORYಬಿಜಿಎಸ್‌ ಗ್ಲೋಬಲ್‌ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಾಯಿ ಶವಕ್ಕಾಗಿ 36 ಗಂಟೆಗಳಿಂದ ಕಾಯುತ್ತಿದೆ ಕಂಪ್ಲಿಯ ಬಡ ಕುಟುಂಬ BysamacharaJuly 9, 2017 ಕ್ಯಾನ್ಸರ್‌ ಕಾಯಿಲೆಯಿಂದ ಮೃತಪಟ್ಟ ಮಹಿಳೆಯೊಬ್ಬರ ಶವವನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯಲು ಕಂಪ್ಲಿ ಮೂಲದ ಕುಟುಂಬವೊಂದು ಸುಮಾರು 36 ಗಂಟೆಗಳಿಂದ ಪರದಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಬಿಜಿಎಸ್‌ ಗ್ಲೋಬಲ್‌ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಈಗ ಜಾರಿಯಲ್ಲಿದೆ. ಬಡತನ ರೇಖೆಗಿಂತ ಕೆಳಗಿರುವ ಕುಟುಂಬಗಳಿಗೆ ಕ್ಯಾನ್ಸರ್‌ನಂತಹ ಕಾಯಿಲೆಗಳ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆಗಾಗಿ ಸರಕಾರದ ವಿಮಾ ಯೋಜನೆ ಧನ ಸಹಾಯ ನೀಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಖಾಸಗಿ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಸರಕಾರದ ವಿಮೆ ಹಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಸೇವೆಯನ್ನು ಈ...

A tale of exploitation

PUBLIC HEALTH Link Minister ‘helpless’ WHILE the article on unwarranted hysterectomies was being written, reports came in of 1,520 unwarranted hysterectomies that had been perf... » In a serious breach of medical ethics, doctors and private hospitals in Karnataka, particularly in Kalaburagi district, have been exploiting poor and illiterate women by conducting unwarranted hysterectomies. BY VIKHAR...