Indian Medical Association (IMA), the professional lobby group of allopathic medicine practitioners has just announced a set of self-regulation measures for hospitals and doctors. What triggered the decision, announced at a press conference on Monday in New Delhi, are the growing incidents of doctor-patient mistrust in the country. The immediate provocation apparently was the action initiated by Haryana government against one of the hospitals of the leading private healthcare provider for allegedly failing to provide adequate treatment to a seven-year-old dengue patient.
In a similar fashion, the Delhi government had decided to cancel the license of one of the units of Healthcare, another corporate healthcare chain, for wrongly declaring a premature baby as dead, both recent developments. A couple of months ago, while hearing a Public Interest Litigation against alleged overpricing of…
