A few days back, one of my colleagues told me he was going to India for treatment. When asked, he replied that he was doing so despite having plenty of hospitals and qualified doctors at home. His reply did not surprise me because we all look for good care both before and after treatment, particularly surgery.
Sadly, we see a distinct lack of care prevailing in our medicare sector. Our doctors are qualified like others in foreign countries, but unfortunately they are more driven by profit motive than any other considerations. They somehow tend to forget that their profession is not meant for making money alone, but providing treatment with care and sympathy. Medical profession should not be looked upon as any other business or trade.
This is not to say that all doctors and medical practitioners are the same. Some of them are excellent by any standard and they are held in high esteem by the patients and their relatives. Most of our doctors prescribe a number of pathological tests which are considered to be redundant. They do not provide enough information to the patients. If the patients have queries, they do not answer them. That is why people, who can afford, prefer to go outside the country for medical treatment. They go to countries like Singapore, Thailand and India and even the USA for medical attention. In this way we lose lot of patients who could otherwise be treated at home easily.
We only hope that the existing scenario is immediately improved so that no patient has to go outside the country to seek quality medical treatment.
Anis Ahmed
Wari, Dhaka
Poor state of healthcare
FE Team | Published: July 26, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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