Mobilenews24x7 Bureau (Exclusive)
Real face of some people behind the white gown. And this lifting of the curtain comes from a senior govt Doctor itself and the facts may be known to some but not to all in general.
It is all about how the common men are made to cough off humongous for health. Soon we enter a big hospital, the list of treatments as if predetermined.
You have a cardiac related ailment doctors normally prescribe streptokinase injection that usually costs you Rs.9000 while the real cost is Rs 700 to 900. Who bridges the gap?
For normal typhoid a doctor may tell you to take a total of 14 monocef whose price is Rs.25 but the hospital chemists ask you Rs.53. Hold your breath for the next as Dr. Pradeep Agarwal enunciates but with a pronounced grudge.
For a kidney failure dialysis, which is normally done once in 3 days, dialysis is done and the injection following, the MRP is Rs.1800. Want it at an affordable price, go around the country but you would never.
Because the companies who manufacture supply to Doctors. Surprisingly, the real price of that is Rs.500 but the doctors; MRP reads Rs.1,800. So just wonder about the hiatus between 500 and 1,800; enormous, says Dr, Agarwal.
He does not like that the practice of this type is anywhere accepted in medical practice but, it is in vogue.
Infection now-a-days is as common as many and what a doctor normally prescribes Antibiotic you buy at Rs.540 to 750. Rs. 150 from some other manufacturer while the generic comes at just Rs.45.
Ask a chemist for the generic one and the pat comes the reply normally is,we don’t sell generic meds! So you have to go with the Rs.540 one usually.
Another most common test is Ultrasound which in the market remains at Rs .750. Trust Pharmacy at Rs.240 and so imagine the medico’s concession straight Rs.300.
Doctors’ alleged commission for the MRI is Rs. 2k to 3k.
It is all about the connivance between the doctors and the pharmaceutical companies, and well it goes on.
What do we call this kind of hand-in-glove deals? Fooling the unsuspecting common men or loot…
For the media, it is all about how a prince dated with a princess or so and so or a cine-star kissed some real ones or Rocky (name changed) Sawant or Big-Boss every day or a cine-star dreams loving a cricketer and so on.
But hardly one finds few lines what goes on in the medical profession like the dark underbelly of this noble profession. Media must answer for this kind of Ostritch like conduct.
