Hospitals In India !!!!

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In this picture taken on February 7, 2013 hospital staff work at one of the post-operative pediatrics observation and care units of the Narayana Hrudayalaya cardiac-care hospital in Bangalore. A group of Indian doctors believe they can cut the cost of heart surgery to an astonishing 800 USD at their “no thrills” low-cost hospital.

Using pre-fabricated buildings, stripping out air-conditioning and even training visitors to help with post-operative care, the group believess it can cut the cost of heart surgery to an astonishing 800 dollars.

“Today healthcare has got phenomenal services to offer. Almost every disease can be cured and if you can’t cure patients, you can give them meaningful life,” says company founder Devi Shetty, one of the world’s most famous heart surgeons.


“But what percentage of the people of this planet can afford it? A hundred years after the first heart surgery, less than 10 percent of the world’s population can,” he told AFP from his office in hi-tech hub Bangalore.

Already famous for his “heart factory” in Bangalore, which does the highest number of cardiac operations in the world, the latest Narayana Hrudayalaya (“Temple of the Heart”) projects are ultra low-cost facilities.

The first is a single-storey hospital in Mysore, two hours drive from Bangalore, which was built for about 400 million rupees (7.4 million dollars) in only 10 months and recently opened its doors.


Set amid palm trees and with five operating theatres for cardiac, brain and kidney procedures, Shetty boasts how it was built at a fraction of the cost of equivalents in the rich world.

Read more here:Inside India's 'No-Frills' Hospitals, Where Heart Surgery Costs Just $800 - Business Insider

 

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In this picture taken on February 7, 2013 hospital staff work at one of the post-operative pediatrics observation and care units of the Narayana Hrudayalaya cardiac-care hospital in Bangalore. A group of Indian doctors believe they can cut the cost of heart surgery to an astonishing 800 USD at their “no thrills” low-cost hospital.

Using pre-fabricated buildings, stripping out air-conditioning and even training visitors to help with post-operative care, the group believess it can cut the cost of heart surgery to an astonishing 800 dollars.

“Today healthcare has got phenomenal services to offer. Almost every disease can be cured and if you can’t cure patients, you can give them meaningful life,” says company founder Devi Shetty, one of the world’s most famous heart surgeons.


“But what percentage of the people of this planet can afford it? A hundred years after the first heart surgery, less than 10 percent of the world’s population can,” he told AFP from his office in hi-tech hub Bangalore.

Already famous for his “heart factory” in Bangalore, which does the highest number of cardiac operations in the world, the latest Narayana Hrudayalaya (“Temple of the Heart”) projects are ultra low-cost facilities.

The first is a single-storey hospital in Mysore, two hours drive from Bangalore, which was built for about 400 million rupees (7.4 million dollars) in only 10 months and recently opened its doors.


Set amid palm trees and with five operating theatres for cardiac, brain and kidney procedures, Shetty boasts how it was built at a fraction of the cost of equivalents in the rich world.

Read more here:Inside India's 'No-Frills' Hospitals, Where Heart Surgery Costs Just $800 - Business Insider

Hospitals in India have, over the last 20 years or so, become purely business enterprises and now the doctors can be dragged to consumer courts by the "consumers" of the hospitals' services. Therefore, profits and keeping themselves immunised/protected from litigation are the two aims of indian hospitals today.

A student has to give at least a crore for a seat in medical or for post-graduate medical studies; sometimes the most sought after line is available only for even more astronomical "capitation fee". The students thus studying have only one motto in their life :get back their money, with interest, ASAP. Tending to patients, serving them, curing illnesses, etc., are farthest from even their minor or subsidiary objectives.

This "cost cutting" will, therefore, likely to result in the patient himself procuring all the surgical instruments, medicines etc., at his cost so that the hospital will famously proclaim that they have cut costs. Just like the airlines: soon people may have to fly standing just as they do even today in Mumbai suburban trains!!