It is very important for everyone to know that hospital based doctors are bound by their contracts to increase the profits of the hospital, healing people does not exist in the list. The editorial, titled Corruption in Indian Medicine, came out just as the Kokilaben Dhirubai Ambani Hospital (KDAH) in Mumbai acknowledged, in a letter to the Maharashtra Medical Council, that it offered incentives to doctors to refer patients to the hospital (first reported in TOI on May 13 with a follow-up on June 15). The complaint before MMC stated that the hospital had been sending out forms to various doctors to enrol in a forum promising a reward of Rs 1 lakh for 40 admissions per annum, Rs 1.5 lakh for 50 admissions and Rs 2.5 lakh for 75 admissions.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:11:08 +0000
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