HEALTH CARE , EDUCATION AND HOUSING ARE OUT OF REACH FOR MIDDLE CLASS NOW..
Since last two decades , Government's style and method of
spending on Health , Education and Housing has resulted in mushroom growth of
greedy private sector in these key segments.The driving force for this private
sector is only money and their mission is to earn more and more every day.
HEALTH CARE
In private hospitals doctors are given Targets for
surgeries ,Tests and other activities that are likely to increase earnings for
the Hospital.In Mumbai , I came to know that a hospital disconnected AC
facility in the room of a senior ENT surgeon who was not recommending surgeries
in all cases.Another hospital dispensed with the services of a senior
consultant who was not prescribing tests to every patient. All private
hospitals are outside the reach of a common man now..Medical ethics and social
commitment has no meaning in these shops.Consultants are made to move in field
in the garb of free check ups to bring newer patients. In one hospital , A very small Benign Sebaceous cyst of 4mm
diameter was surgically removed at an astronomical cost of Rs30000/ ( Thirty
thousands ) in a private hospital . It was
made to look like a major surgical intervention.Patient made to stay overnight.
I quote a news irem
Published in TOI Mumbai Edition dated 23rd May 2016.
Quote ..
“ A doctor working in one of New Delhi's leading
corporate hospitals said, “I was shocked to see that patients suffering from
sore throat were admitted in the ICU. On my first day , I was directed to not
tell the patients clearly what they were suffering from. We were told to
prescribe as many investigations as possible, since that is where the maximum
revenue is generated.“
The shocking revelation was
made by a doctor, on condition of anonymity , in a recent online poll. Over 86%
of 2,570 doctors, who participated in the survey from across the country ,
including Maharashtra, said corporate hospitals are “encouraging unethical
practices“. Most were concerned about the revenuemaking exercises and the
culture of targets and deadlines in the corporate hospitals. The poll comes on
the heels of similar disclosures made by 78 practising doctors from Mumbai,
Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Pune that was recently complied into a
book by health activist Dr Abhay Shukla and Dr Arun Gadre.” Unquote
HOUSING
So many stand cheated in the name of Housing by unscrupulous Builders across the country . You just can not trust their attractive advertisements in newspapers any more .If you get possession of a Flat or House that you had book through a Builder, think yourself Lucky . Forget the recurring demands and repeated cost escalations that the builder makes over and above the advertised price . The way Land Mafia and builders operate and inflate housing price in our country, 80 % of the population can not dream of buying a shelter in cities leave alone Metros.
EDUCATION
The coaching centres, private schools, private colleges
,Private professional colleges and Crash course centres are just commodity
selling centres driven by money market. you have agents of professional
colleges staying in Hotels for months who arrange admissions of even such
students as have failed in Common Entrance Tests.you have agents, Brokers and
middlemen who arrange admission in Medical colleges of Bangla Desh , Russia and
other countries without any CET.
CONCLUSION
Government can not
wash it's hands off from its pivotal responsibility to administer and manage
these sectors so that common man is benefited and not penalized.
Fine , Don't Nationalize these key sectors but tell us how
are you going to enforce discipline and order in these sectors .
Health, Housing
and Education left in private sector is now proving beyond the reach of
country's middle class ....
(Autar Mota)
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