July 22, 2014
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday educated both places of Parliament that his service does not acknowledge the affirmed therapeutic extortion discoveries of the TV station News Nation attained through its "Operation Jonk" uncover.
In an announcement conveyed before members of both places of Parliament, Dr. Merciless Vardhan said the two-hour-long program titled "Operation Jonk" had looked to uncover the mystery bargains struck between some deceptive medicinal specialists and the administrations of obsessive labs and demonstrative focuses in Delhi.
He said the project seemed to utilize traditional sting operation systems to animate open awareness on the professedly unregulated state of undertakings in an imperative fragment of the therapeutic economy.
He included that the project demonstrated the straightforwardness with which a few specialists are proposed as gathering 30-50 percent commissions on attractive thunder imaging (MRI), CT Scans, ultra sound, routine obsessive tests, and so on was caught through surreptitiously shot discussions.
Some presumed indicative focuses of Delhi, including its most seasoned standing one, were indicated as included in this odious racket," Dr. Harsh Vardhan said.
"The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare does not acknowledge an expansive brush portrayal of the restorative group as liable of such acts of neglect. Be that as it may, it is felt that a few people who are enjoying such unscrupulous behavior ought to be distinguished and disentitled from honing the honorable calling of the doctor," Dr. Harsh Vardhan said.
The three most vital disclosures of the system are:
1. The racket is suggestive of an all pervasive, at least in the context of the national capital. Though doctors are not individually named, it should not be difficult to get to the facts because the programme has revealed that the commissions are paid through the issuance of monthly or weekly cheques.
2. The racket is leading to unjustified profit margins. This is apparent from the rate of commissions paid. In quite a few parts of the sting operation, the staff of the diagnostic centres reveal that they pay referring doctors as much as 50 percent commission on expensive tests like MRI. This indicates that even after paying the huge rate of commission these clinics report good profits.
3. A kind of cartelisation has resulted insofar as this aspect of the medical economy of Delhi is concerned. All the private laboratories and diagnostic centres charge roughly the same amounts for pathological tests and clinical examinations. Patients have no option but to pay up the exorbitant fees. They are also subjected to unnecessary tests by the doctors who are guided by the lucre of commissions. This exacerbates their physical and mental agony.
Dr. harsh Vardhan said that his service acknowledges that the patient/buyer of the medicinal economy needs security from such detestable practices that now flourish under conditions made by absence of usage of existing laws/standards/codes and inadequate legislative oversight.
He said that he has asked the Health Secretary to lead a fair request to learn the truths brought out by the TV program.
He additionally uncovered that the News Nation Channel has been asked for to submit a DVD and a duplicate of the script to encourage the request.
(Inputs and photo: ANI)
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday educated both places of Parliament that his service does not acknowledge the affirmed therapeutic extortion discoveries of the TV station News Nation attained through its "Operation Jonk" uncover. In an announcement conveyed before members of both places of Parliament, Dr. Merciless Vardhan said the two-hour-long program titled "Operation Jonk" had looked to uncover the mystery bargains struck between some deceptive medicinal specialists and the administrations of obsessive labs and demonstrative focuses in Delhi.
He said the project seemed to utilize traditional sting operation systems to animate open awareness on the professedly unregulated state of undertakings in an imperative fragment of the therapeutic economy.
He included that the project demonstrated the straightforwardness with which a few specialists are proposed as gathering 30-50 percent commissions on attractive thunder imaging (MRI), CT Scans, ultra sound, routine obsessive tests, and so on was caught through surreptitiously shot discussions.
Some presumed indicative focuses of Delhi, including its most seasoned standing one, were indicated as included in this odious racket," Dr. Harsh Vardhan said.
"The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare does not acknowledge an expansive brush portrayal of the restorative group as liable of such acts of neglect. Be that as it may, it is felt that a few people who are enjoying such unscrupulous behavior ought to be distinguished and disentitled from honing the honorable calling of the doctor," Dr. Harsh Vardhan said.
The three most vital disclosures of the system are:
1. The racket is suggestive of an all pervasive, at least in the context of the national capital. Though doctors are not individually named, it should not be difficult to get to the facts because the programme has revealed that the commissions are paid through the issuance of monthly or weekly cheques.
2. The racket is leading to unjustified profit margins. This is apparent from the rate of commissions paid. In quite a few parts of the sting operation, the staff of the diagnostic centres reveal that they pay referring doctors as much as 50 percent commission on expensive tests like MRI. This indicates that even after paying the huge rate of commission these clinics report good profits.
3. A kind of cartelisation has resulted insofar as this aspect of the medical economy of Delhi is concerned. All the private laboratories and diagnostic centres charge roughly the same amounts for pathological tests and clinical examinations. Patients have no option but to pay up the exorbitant fees. They are also subjected to unnecessary tests by the doctors who are guided by the lucre of commissions. This exacerbates their physical and mental agony.
Dr. harsh Vardhan said that his service acknowledges that the patient/buyer of the medicinal economy needs security from such detestable practices that now flourish under conditions made by absence of usage of existing laws/standards/codes and inadequate legislative oversight.
He said that he has asked the Health Secretary to lead a fair request to learn the truths brought out by the TV program.
He additionally uncovered that the News Nation Channel has been asked for to submit a DVD and a duplicate of the script to encourage the request.
(Inputs and photo: ANI)
