The Indian health system is caught in a maze where there are too many twisted overlaps among allopaths, ayurvedhs, homeopaths, Siddha docs, alternate therapists, naturopaths, and self-claimed diet doctors, media made traditional medics and quacks with political backing. Do you know a mere hernia surgery costs 80000 INR but 80000 us dollars? So does that bring in patients from abroad? All the promises of medical tourism have gone futile.
So we depend by and large on our own population and the SAARC countries with a little help from nri from gulf and a few african patients courtesy illegitimate brokers and agents. First we have to identify ourselves as authentic allopathic medical practitioner-AAMP. Some thing like yesteryear's authorised medical attendant ama-as soon as we register with regional medical council. Next step is we need to …
