It is disturbing to see how the media is describing health-related issues in the country. Being a faculty in AIIMS for 32 years, I have some personal opinion regarding healthcare in India. Firstly health is not the priority area for the government, which can be seen by the status of affairs in the government-run hospitals as well as budget allocated to the healthcare sector. Healthcare in India is not government responsibility and that is the reason for 80% of healthcare is provided by private sector.
Compare the healthcare with say food. Once I am going to say five start hotel, I know that food will be costly and I am ready to pay. If I do not have money, I will not go to five start hotel to eat and will restrict to home food or lower class hotel which suit my pocket. In case of health, even though a poor know that says some hospitals are costlier, at the time of emergency, when the…
