Can The Expensive Treatment in India Be Curbed?

This time in the Rajya Sabha, two private bills have been introduced expecting to become law. Significantly if there is an open debate on the two bills that  certainly will prove to be too beneficial for the country.

The first bill is over equal personal law for all and the second is about preventing loot in medical treatment in India. Personal law belongs to marriage, divorce, dowry, succession law, etc. Nevertheless, it is more beneficial for all Indian denizens to follow the same personal law.

Instead of sticking to the thousands of years old Hindu law, Christian and Jewish law and Islamic law, the people of India are going to easily get a chance to be free from many problems by following the modern law dealing with the new circumstances. Similarly, an average Indian in the country faces a lot of difficulty in getting proper treatment along with a proper justice. Thus they are disappointed with our hospitals and courts paying too much getting not much.

Thus as a solution for controlling the prices of hospitals, doctors’ fees, medicines and tests, there must be sincere efforts put in from the government’s side.  Education, medical treatment and justice should be given free of cost to every Indian citizen like many other countries. That is why in the current session of the Rajya Sabha, has witnessed the arrival of this bill which has been brought to control the cost of treatment. Now further on this bill should be passed unanimously and sent to the Lok Sabha.

The bill perhaps does not demand that the ‘extortion’ in surgery along with room fees in non-government hospitals be stopped. Therefore, either private hospitals be completely abolished or they should be asked to provide quality treatment with reasonable charges. Nowadays, health insurance definitely provides some relief to middle and upper class patients but it also has become a new weapon of ‘loot’ by private hospitals. The hefty fees of private hospitals and the negligence of government hospitals make many patients admitted, even more sick.

When the original cost price of a medicine is Rs. 2, that gets sold for hundred rupees. Same way when a test originally is worth fifty rupees, patients are charged rupees five hundred for that. And this is an open secret in public domain today.  According to a survey, the inflation of treatment in India had increased by 14 percent in 2021 which brought around 5.5 crore people of the country below the poverty line.

On the medical treatment, our citizens have to spend 63 percent out of their pocket in India. Many other steps are also necessary to keep the health of Indian citizens good. Thus the Parliament should not have any hesitation in making the treatment for the people of India cheaper.

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