This is a follow up to my earlier post “When Doctor Becomes Patient: Personal Experience at an Indian Hospital" Let me start by thanking colleagues who wrote enriching comments in response to the above post. Here are my follow up thoughts: I have verified that the hospital I was at is NABH-accredited since 2016. So now the process, validity and usefulness of NABH accreditation itself are also of concern. How can a hospital with such gross lack of basic processes of infection control and other quality protocols be granted NABH accreditation?
What really is conveyed by NABH accreditation seal when we see one on a hospital? I have been involved with Joint Commission accreditation as a hospital executive in US for decades and am intimately familiar with accreditation processes and what it entails. Therefore, I am even more dismayed now. I have followed up with the hospital management and…
