Crazy mafias in the name of ‘Naanga Irukom'(We’re there)

Recently came to know about the story of my neighbor  He is 59 years old, living a peaceful retired life with his wife here in Tirunelveli. He is an know diabetic with very tight control of blood sugar level with oral hypoglycemic drugs. He went to his daughter’s residence at Chennai for last year summer. His daughter is an Engineer at Infosys. She wanted to do something regarding her father’s defective vision. So, she took her to the top promoted ‘Naanga Irukom’ eye hospital at Chennai. Welcomed warm at  the reception by ‘charming’ receptionist. He was examined and found to have ‘Senile Immature Cortical Cataract’ in both eyes with more defective vision in left eye.

Great ophthalmologists always suggest that, if the cataract is without any possible immediate complications and disabling to the patient, you don’t operate on it. But, ‘Naanga Irukom’ corporate girls have misguided that old man than his cataract will become very severe in few weeks itself and advised him to undergo Phacoemusification surgery at their hospital. Reason is that, Phaco surgery is the most costliest cataract procedure and can be done successfully in very early stages of cataract only. I don’t have much complaints about this suggestion because sometimes silent cataract can complicate as Phacomorphic glaucoma is some patients.

But, the problem is that they didn’t inform his retinal status and optic nerve status which is very important regarding the prognosis of vision post-surgically.  He is having Age-related macular degeneration which is not going to improve by cataract surgery. Without informing this and getting ‘GVP’ (Guarded Visual Prognosis), Naanga Irukom Hospital operated on him with roll-able IOL. The total money spent on this single cataract surgery is 1.45 lakhs Indian rupee. (Normal SICS would have cost him anywhere near 10k Indian rupees only). Surgery was done and the vision as expected is not improved as expected.

When he agains consulted with the hospital, he was said that he was having problem in Retina and that could be relieved by Laser surgery. He underwent that. After that too, vision didn’t improved. Later, same hospital said that he need to under vitreous surgery for vitreous hemorrhage. He underwent that too… (Shabaaaaa….!) . Still vision is not so good. Then the hospital convinced him that he is not having a good control of diabetes and referred him to a diabetologist in Chennai. He returned with worse vision inspite of spending Rs. 2.5 lakhs Indian rupees totally.

I am not blaming the shortcomings of surgery in certain patients, the problem is that Eye Network fails to explain the possible complications with their patients, sorry ‘customers’, in order to steal their money.

I advised my old man to go with COPRA !

Attractive option to reduce India’s population burden – ‘Bring more private medical institutions’

Standards of Indian Medical Education was once on the top of the world some few years ago. Government Medical Institutions played the prime role for the cause of excellence in bedside clinicals. Even in USA, the number of patients per student at a Medical College Hospital is very low when compared to India. Indian Doctors were trained to spend more time taking with patients, thorough history taking and physical examination to arrive at the diagnosis.Other foreign nations rely on machinery diagnosis only. Days of history taking and physical examination are gone there.

But, in recent years, every liquor business owners and big shots are starting medical college across the country. Medical Council of India which is supposed to maintain the standard of medical education in the country is granting permission to start MBBS course without having adequate facilities and faculties. The inspectors from MCI were offered on average some 50 to 100 lakhs rupees for the grant of permission. Fake faculties are hired for that one day of inspection. Some rare specialists such as Forensic Medicine personnel are hired for Rs.12 lakhs for that single day. No OP patients will be there, but the inspector will note them 2000+ per day. After getting permission, they used to charge Rs.80 lakhs (average) for their students to buy MBBS degree. Similarly, postgraduate specialties are also granted to these private institutions for money. Recently, CNN-IBN’s sting operation exposed such incidents from nearly 5 popular private medical colleges from across the country.

Officials say that there is not enough doctors in our country and we need more medical colleges to fill up the spaces. But, those who study in private medical colleges will never come in direct contact with patients during their entire course period. They know only theory and they can pass the exams with money if such colleges were deemed universities. So, every year India is creating number of dummy doctors who know nothing other than to advocate useless investigations to their patients to arrive at the diagnosis. 

Few saviors is better than these ‘killers’ – These ‘Killing Quacks’ are of-course the attractive option to reduce India’s population overload.

The ultimate fools are the people of India!

I think Government college merit students like me are also loosing name because of this large number of quacks from private colleges. It’s not far, that, people are going to loose their trust on doctors in near future.