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Poor Healthcare in India: Why the basic medical services for the citizens in India lag far behind when compared with the other developing economies of the world and why the number of Doctors cannot be raised in the country are some of the questions that baffles the mind of all. It is also a known fact that there is no high tech requirement to produce such basic qualified doctors in the country but there seems to be no willpower there to implement. When one analyses the situation, it is seen that the Indian Medical Association (IMA) is at the forefront for providing assistance in formulating the basic medical policies of the country but the fact is that these medical services are not at all in the reach of general public.
In recent time people were baffled to see the following news items:
1. A leading hospital in the country at Mumbai facilitating for the donation for a coma patient, a young 12 year old boy who had a severe epilepsy attack and was kept in controlled coma condition under observations for last 40 days. The boy belonged to a simple middle class family whose parents after incurring an initial expenditure of Rs 12 lakhs ( Rs 1.2 million ) were unable to bear any more the future cost of keeping him under coma at the rate of Rs 40000/- per day of hospital.
2. The same hospital again after few days came in news when they charged Rs 1.66 crores ( or USD 2.5 million ) to Railways for keeping a patient of Mumbai bomb blast of train in semi coma condition for last 8 years before his death in that hospital.
Both these incidents tell about the poor state of affairs and related problems of people in getting the medical services in a hospital of repute in India at affordable cost. With availability of only one doctor per 1700 persons one can understand how the poor people must be getting their medical treatments in the country. No wonder the public health situation in the country is in shambles and this field is wide open for the offshore companies and research institute to enter in a big way now. Country has talent but not the ability to produce doctors is something that the policy makers need to deliberate upon at length for meeting the expectations of the people at large.
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Now EMA ie European Medicines Association is banning some drugs from Indian origin and IMA is nowhere coming in the way for resolving the issue is all surprising.