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| HC notice to Centre, state on 'medical corruption' | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 26: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the central and state governments on the issue of "medical corruption".
Treating media reports in this regard as PIL, a division bench of Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey asked both the Centre and the state to file response within four weeks.
The matter refers to "medical corruption" and it was based on a report in a national newspaper in its June 12, 2016 edition, publishing an open letter by one G S Grewal to the prime minister in which he had stated that primarily there were three types of medical corruption -- exorbitantly priced drugs , cuts and commission to referring doctors and referring patients for diagnostic tests and medical examination without the actual need. Grewal had stated that there was an urgent need to purge the health care system to make it affordable. He had urged for legislating a strong law with its strict implementation which alone could act as a strong deterrent against the 'medical corruption, cheating and fraud'.
In his letter, he had further stated that in the absence of a strong law, desperate and helpless patients would continue to get exploited, fleeced and even stripped of their possessions, earnings and savings.
He said that in India every year, three crore people were believed to 'slip blow poverty line', after spending their savings and earnings on selling off their assets for medical treatment which may or may not cure them of their diseases and ailments.
It also highlighted that there is 'massive difference' in the actual price of medicines and the MRP mentioned on the packets of drugs. The difference was as much as 500 pc and at times even more. Regulating of the drug price was emphasized in the open letter. It has also been highlighted that sometimes referring doctors or a group is paid as much as 50 pc cut of medical treatment charges of the patient.
"In view of above referred circumstances the medical treatment has become very expensive rather unaffordable for majority of population across the country," he said.
"This court as a responsible constitutional authority and to uphold and preserve the constitutional rights of a sizeable section of population embedded in particular in article 21 of the Constitution of India cannot shut its eyes and abdicate the constitutional duty but has to stand up to safeguard the legal and constitutional rights of a large section of population, most of whom cannot not afford to approach this court," the court observed. For all the period, from which the write-ups have appeared in the news papers no action has been taken to redress the legal and constitutional grievances of a large section of population which has constrained the court to initiate action, it said and issued notice to the centre and government. |
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