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I'd like to take a shot at answering this: why is a low cost medical treatment effective in India? 1. For the most part, medical education is good in India. In
by curiousfiddler 13y ago
I'd like to take a shot at answering this: why is a low cost medical treatment effective in India?
1. For the most part, medical education is good in India. In the better hospitals you will find that doctors are generally very smart and knowledgeable. They also happen to be very practical when suggesting treatments and do consider the treatment cost as a factor when suggesting options.
2. The cost of living in India is lower when compared to the developed world.
3. The equipment cost and medicine cost is also lower compared to the developed world.
Also, please understand, India "is not a developed nation". Everyone there "cannot" afford expensive medical treatment. Yet, people who cannot afford expensive treatment "can" suffer from ailments like cancer, heart problems etc. I find it commendable that such people do have a fairly reliable option to save their life, however imperfect it may appear, compared to the system in the developed world. Standards will improve as the country develops, but for now, they offer a good solution.
- skylan_q 13y agoI'm going to guess it's because people in India are allowed to practice medicine and produce equipment. If I were to start practicing medicine and producing equipment up here in Canada I'd be arrested in a heartbeat. (Unless I went through all the hoops, and I again have a hunch there's many more here than in India)
- curiousfiddler 13y agoWell yes they are, but it is regulated (in terms of educational qualification etc). What I was trying to get at, is developing and underdeveloped countries face a lot of problems. To produce worthy result in such circumstances is something definitely worth cheering IMO. There are so many deprived/underdeveloped/developing societies in the world which are similar to India in terms of the resources that they have access to, yet somehow the aspirations of people are not channelized and they end up doing things which are awful (e.g. terrorism). I feel India could be used as a positive example in such cases. There are a lot of inspiring stories of people who perform amazingly well, despite access to very little resources, just because they have a direction in life and an aspiration that is meaningful. I have been inspired by several such stories in my life, which will find absolutely no mention in any western or even local media.
- eru 13y agoIndia is hugely bureaucratic and inefficient..
- mh- 13y agojust a heads up, you can italicize on HN by wrapping word(s) with asterisks like: India *is not* a [..] sorry to take away from thread; insightful comment.
- curiousfiddler 13y agoThanks, will use that in future. Looking back at my comment, I don't seem to like the double quotes either.
- abraham_s 13y agoThere is a lot of state run medical colleges in India which offers (almost) free education, so that the doctors complete their education without racking up a huge debt.
- kamaal 13y agoThere are state run medical colleges, but by no means there are a 'lot'. Yes the fees is less, but its not (almost)free. And there are many doctors who move out of India, because the money is good outside.
- abraham_s 13y ago161 out of 355 is state run. [1] When compared to the fees in the US and private colleges in India, the fees are very low (at least 1/5) [1]http://mciindia.org/InformationDesk/MedicalCollegeHospitals/ListofCollegesTeachingMBBS.aspx http://mciindia.org/InformationDesk/MedicalCollegeHospitals/...