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Indian Medical Association (IMA) Proposes Funds To Subsidise Medical BillsBy sachiv1, Section News
Incidents of violence and trouble in private hospitals across the city have been making the headlines of late.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), a body of 1,80,000 doctors across the country, and the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India (AEHI), which has most private hospitals including Woodlands Hospitals West Bank Hospital, Calcutta Medical Research Institute and AMRI and many others as it’s members, expressed concern over the state of affairs that are casting these corporate hospitals in a bad light. At the Medi-Summit 2007, the IMA proposed a corpus fund that will be formed by various private hospitals to try and provide a definite portion of expenses for treatment of people who are unable to pay their bill. The hospitals will form a task force of people from all sections of society, including politicians, police officers and legal experts among others, to fight the increasing practice of hooliganism and violence in hospitals.
Dr Sanjay Prasad, CEO of the Mission of Mercy Hospitals, said that in spite of having good doctors in the city, there has been a surge of patients to Chennai and Vellore. Dr A Sarkar, editor of the IMA’s Your Health magazine, expressed concern over the rise in incidents of hooliganism and attacks on hospital premises. “There is a need to bring about good hospital practices, increasing communication between doctors and patients, removing hidden costs in billing, proper media management and social responsibility,” said Dr Sarkar.
The burning issues in private hospitals today are the tendency to get treatment free of cost and the monocular view of the media, said AEHI President Amit Dey. Md Salim, MP, suggested that hospitals should be more transparent in their operations. “It is the hospitals that offer some discount to local hooligans and thus people try to extract benefits by creating a scene. The relationship between doctors and patients becomes a relationship of transaction,” he said. C V Murlidhar, additional C P of Police, said that ransacking a hospital is also traumatic for the doctors. “It takes us 15-20 minutes to reach a hospital and before that the damage has been done,” said Murlidhar. (Source - Indian Express, 21/05/07)
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