In India at present due to the development of corporate hospitals from the starting of the first corporate hospital in Chennai in 1983 to date, the mushrooming of the corporate hospitals made the treatment of most incurable diseases, the basis for more treatment and the basis for their enormous earnings. The decision to treat or not depends on the demand of the patients’ relatives as well as the affordability of the patients. In any corporate hospital in India at present, there is a methodology to exclude or stop treatment to the patients who cannot be improved 100%.
For example when the treatment days exceed ten, then a board of doctors reviewing the treatment and the disease and the outcome is not analysed and the conclusion drawn is not done at any point of time. If the money is exhausted in the treatment process, then the patient is almost abandoned and shifted to a Government…
