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When doctors turn mercenaries : Northeast Echoes
The Telegraph | Patricia Mukhim | May 20:
In the absence of a functioning state-owned healthcare system, private hospitals and nursing homes are making a killing. In Northeast India, some states have a very high maternal mortality ratio. And this has been the status for a long time without any improvement whatsoever.
But even as the rural populace struggles to keep body and soul together, private healthcare providers are thronging the urban centres and those who can afford expensive treatment are patronising these swanky, new nursing homes.
Such nursing homes and private hospitals thrive on a network of specialists who they invite and shamelessly advertise about in the newspapers. This, in itself, is a breach of medical ethics. These flying surgeons who convert minutes and hours into currency usually leave their patients in the care of resident doctors
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