From Al Jazeera - Indian Hospital Revisited
Al Jazeera's series on Indian hospital has been most informative with regards to health care and modern affordable hospital care.
There are episodes featured here this week regarding:
1. Dr. Rolson Sandeep who had two important patients: Rejeshawani Madival, who was operated on her lock jaw. The operation gave Rejeshawari new outlook in life, and improved her grades. Dr. Rolson had to intervene in the family's desire to have her stop schooling and have her get married. Dr Rolson visited his patient, Rejeshawani who lives 500 km away from Bengalore. He prevailed upon her parents to let her continue studying and probably become a bank manager.
This gives new meaning to the address "Sir Doc" Rejeshwari considers Dr. Rolson to be God.
2. Dr. Rolson has another patient, and he considers having such patient a good "Karma", Baby Dhayan who has such gross face abnormality. It is not just harelip problem, there is a big space between her eyes where the nose should be. Dr. Rolson has never done anything like this. And he is doing a painstaking study on how to do this.
Health care in the Western world has been expensive and unaffordable; the rest of the world is following suit. The Indian hospitals has been leading the way in socialized health care, where treatments are ridiculously low low low: $1t+ heart bypass, $10 hemodialysis,. Big pharma and hospital appetite profit is partly to blame. Who will take care of the sick, especially those who are poor?
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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