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| Skin treatment costing astronomical to poor Sunderbani patients | | | A B Sharma
Early Times Report
Sunderbani, Nov 3: The medical needs of people of Sunderbani are paid through heavy expenses as the private practitioners there are making undue hay while putting the gullible villagers to all kind of trouble and harassment.
While sub district hospital Sunderbani is catering to all major health needs of the people, yet there are certain faculties which are not present in the hospital, for which the people have to look out for.
The skin specialization is one such segment where there is no faculty and hence the private practitioners are making hay at their sweet will.
To cite a glaring example, one private practitioner in skin treatment specialization owns a clinic at Raina Medical Hall, main bazaar Sunderbani and has put up his consultation fee to whopping Rs 300 which is always out of bounds for poor villagers of the adjacent areas and also for those living in peripheries.
"To shell out Rs 300 for consultation fee is too much. And thereafter the medicines prescribed by the doctor touch astronomical prices which we cannot afford," said Kasturi Lal a, nearby resident of the village who is a daily wager and earns Rs 100-150 daily in his hay-days.
Besides, the villagers allege that there is a clandestine deal also between the doctor and the medicine shop owner who prescribes a particular drug which is only available in a particular shop and has a particular medical representative of the area who supplies the same brand drug.
"Since we are not that literate to look into the salt contained in the medicine so that a cheaper drug of same compound and composition could be purchased,. But then when we go for second consultation within the prescribed time, th doctor reciprocates angrily for not taking the particular drug prescribed by him," said Jeevan Prakash, a tea kiosk owner.
Residents are of unanimous opinion that an affordable amount of Rs 100 should be kept as consultation fee so that patients may not have to suffer.
A rough estimate presented by a local critical analyst said that since the doctor pays a weekly visit to the clinic and attends to nearly 300 patients a day collects a booty of Rs 90,000 while the medicine prescribed by him to the patients runs into more than Rs two lacs sale for the shop in which there is a commission for the doctor also.
The residents have requested the Health Minister Lal Singh to take the cognizance and relieve them of their miseries.
" This is a fact that a SDH does not have faculty for skin treatment department. But as far as the plight of the people is understood, I assure that sooner I will make a makeshift arrangement for the department so that skin treatment is available to them within affordable limits," said Health Minister Lal Singh while talking to Early times.
He also assured that sooner he will depute a doctor in the area so that immediate succor may be available to the deprived lot. |
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