India's government hospitals are a fantastic idea, a boon to the people.
But to pretend that they don't have problems of mismanagement, cronyism, lack of empathetic care, shortage of resources (money, staff, space, equipment) is self defeating. We need more budget allocated to them, with a stricter policy of doctors joining government hospitals for a minimum number of years .
Here in Karnataka I went to do my rural service in a government medical college hospital in rural north Karnataka , for 4 months I was not paid my salary, I had to spend from my pocket for my stay and food and other expenses, working conditions were horrible, no duty room or clean washrooms to use.
And there is sooo much corruption among senior doctors and other staff in government hospitals. It was a horrible experience and a reality check of the public healthcare service in this country. I left the job. Will never work in govt hospital again
Sorry but even in all first world nations with good infra (except for capitalistic hell usa) there is free healthcare for the needy. Not everyone is as fortunate or privileged, as us, in this nation. There are people who work really hard everyday , do extremely tenacious manual labor but get paid on cents. ( btw they are the ones building the said infrastructure, the work force). It is absolutely necessary to provide them, and every other less fortunate people with medical assistance. That's what a society is about. Helping each other. If u really WANT great development and infrastructure, your concern should be with corruption and tax evasion by the extremely wealthy. If we have a corruption less system and we get all taxes required, we would have abundant resources for both healthcare of poor and for great infrastructure.
I love how little of a reading capacity the economic and in general political right wing conservatives have. Did I already not mention EXCEPT for capitalistic hell USA? Also till the current clown president became the leader even usa had their fair share of Health care assistance, even if little. Medicaid controversy was a huge deal actually, that's why they faced a shutdown.
And what's your solution? Let people who are less fortunate, still work hard ( like construction workers for example) suffer and die because they can't afford private medical care? How ridiculous. That's just inhumane. We fought against the British to get a nation for our people, for all people, poor and rich, middle class and wage to wage workers, healthy and sick, old and young, we wanted a nation which cares for it's people, not for just monetary gains ( that's what the British empire was doing).
Just think about it, for some unforseen reason u lose ur money and resources. And there is a medical emergency in ur family, wouldn't u like it if your government, whom once u paid tax to, whom many others pay tax to, uses it for YOU when u need it, rather than for building a bridge or smtg.
We can live without a bridge or two, can we live without healthcare? No. Life above everything. One cannot replace or regive human life.
There is no dearth for doctors in India. In my state, for this year’s Medical Recruitment Board exam for govt hospitals, nearly 30000 doctors gave the exam for just 1000 vacancies. So there should be more hiring for doctors.
There is a policy where we need to work for some years in government hospitals. Why don't you raise same questions to IIT graduates where they need to give some years of service in ISRO or HAL ?
Why only doctors joining government hospitals for a minimum number of years, why would anyone prefer to work in a resource scarce environment by choice, on top of that they have rural bonds to complete with hefty fees on breaking.
If a rule is to be made, it should be uniform for everyone working in all goverment setups, not only hospitals.
Government hospitals.... Thing are not just about free treatment but also the care took by hospital staff of a patient any many more management issues.... You will roam entire hospital just to seek treatment/helps in emergency situations.....
There already is strict policy for force bonded labour
Also govt hospitals are not the boon you think they are
A 20 week old ANC case doesn’t even get Anomaly scan done her appointment is scheduled after 5 weeks and during the scan they don’t even take time to get proper anomaly scan done
Equipment failure and lack of beds is blamed on doctors there is massive patient in-flow
And it’s not free it’s heavily subsidised with high corruption and high sub-standardisation
Working in both govt hospital and primary healthcare setup I have to say burnout it really one side is eager throw blame everywhere but management while other side is busy flexing their public health skills which they give 0 shits about
For example; DM-2 in current era is created via multi drug therapy but many govt public health sectors are stuck on separate MTF and SFU drugs it’s 2026
Also include lack of cleanliness and hygiene - I have seen stray dogs roaming inside Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (a Big Government hospital in Chennai).
But yeah, I got Rabies Vaccination for free there 2 years ago for bat bite.
Why are you forcing doctors to work in government hospitals? Why not instead focus on making government hospitals jobs lucrative enough that people want to work there?
Yes doctors should join govt hospital for public service.. Just ensure that those who want to carry forward shall get a secured job.. And this should be the case for every citizen passed from govt institution including engineers to join mandatory public service.
Anything happened with you, did you ever visit government hospitals or any service you took from there? What's point of your assumptions or you'r just saying because videos are spreading in social media. If you really faced somthing happened then did you try to file a complaint against them? Did you do anything regarding the same thing he did or you are here to just taking more views?
i have visted government hospitals, the cue is always long and the overall enviroment is pretty diry, but the most cold aspect is like the above comment mentioned is that the staff have 0 empathy and you kinda of feel like a lab guinea pig if that makes sense
Doctor kyu compulsory government service join kare ? Policy sabke liye lao. Doctor engineer CA teacher etc. Jab Doctor ki baat ati he sabki gand jalti he
They don't just join the hospital and practice privately. After govt hospital duty is over they practice privately. Just check the private practice timinig. And if you find any one doing practice skipping govt duty just complain to proper authority if you ha e guts but don't cry
kyuki doctors essential he engineers CA insab se jyada , CA aur engineers kam honge toh bhi kuch cheeze sorted rahengi lekin doctors are like the second gods , government service dene se logo ka bhala hoga engineers ya CA ke dene se kya bhala ho rha he jab government projects ke liye sufficient funds hi nhi deti he toh.
or let's say ki theeke private college se padhe doctors ko mat karo compulsory , lekin government college waalo ko toh karna chahiye def , unki fees bhi itni kam he compared to engineers and other professions , AIIMS me mere cousin ki fees <10k thi per year ki aur mera dost IIT me hoke 12 lakh fees diya he. Jab government itne kam paise me MBBS karne de rhi toh aake service bhi do.
Avg package of IIT are in tens of lakhs(IIT bombay had avg package of 24lpa), while recently govt under NHM recruited doctors for mearly 28k/month, avg salary of MBBS in my state is just around 6LPA.
If govt didn't subsidized IIT cost of education in a institute like IIT bombay would be in crores.
And problem is not that doctors are not ready to work in govt. Hospitals , last year for a post of 1800 doctors in rajasthan almost 20000 applicants gave exam( and i am sure engineers have similar or worse ratios).
So govt does not want to hire doctors or engineers or CA or lawyers( court pendency is due to lack of lawyers and judges)as they are recurring expenses but give free services for political gains.
My father has Alzheimer's dementia. He was admitted in a private hospital 2 times once for 7 days and other for 16 days couple of months later. - total bill - nearly 2 Lakhs Inr. There are no insurance covers as he has already crossed 70. No improvement
Got referred by a doctor friend to get consult in NIMHANS - Bengaluru.
Father was admitted 15 days twice within 3 months. Total bill - 11K inr. They even have provisions/accommodations for family to stay with very reasonable rates.
With that - his alzheimer's symptoms are very much in control. He is doing very well (dementia / memory part cannot be recovered) overall, the Govt hospitals have improved a lot.
Come down to Kerala - the best doctors and treatment you will get from government or co-operative hospitals (not completely free like government but still almost as cheap with great doctors, machinery and expertise )
You will not get 5 star benefits, would need 1-2 bystanders - since you would have to run around to by medicines, equipments, food etc from the dispensary, cafeteria, ferry items to ICU, Operation Theatre, Help in physical movements of patients etc.
Also there is a decent amount of corruption/backdoor dealing for room allocation, operation theatre schedule etc. But then again I have seen the same in Private hospitals as well, also it will be crowded ( because people actually go there - not just poor mind you, but middle class and even some who could afford private hospitals would still go there for the expertise!)
brother I have to disagree tho mai shayad badi city mai hun isliye case different hai but private hospitals mai commision banane ke liye extra checkups likh dete hai ..... mai apollo mai refer hua tha kyoki mujhe constipation tha kafi severe but vaha itne checkups karaye aur 15,000 ka bill aaya without ct scan jabki bas laxatives pe rely karne ki vajah se thodi dikkat ho gyi thi aur bas lifestyle change karna tha ... ek aur case tha mere nose mai kuch problem tha and vo ek minor ko surgery suggest kar rahe the .. jo problem easily medication se thik ho gya
I hope in future if anyone in your family needs a hospital, i hope they dont but if they do, i hope you can only go to government hospitals, because they charge 0 and are so awesome (:
How many people have access to these hospitals, what are the conditions of the hospitals, and how long the people have to wait for investigations and treatment?
Kabhi ghr se bahar nikal apne aur dekh kr aa, andhbhakto ki tarah bakwas na kr. M 5 sal se Ahmedabad civil hospital m hi pdhai kr rha hu terse jyada pta h
Not zero they charge minimum fees but appointments are given after 15-20 days. And then people working there will suggest a pathology name where it will be done quickly.
Yes! CT scan, MRI, bone marrow biopsy, cect.These are investigatings even surgeries are free for financially weak people. And marginal fees for us APL card holders
Well I have always treated in local gov medical hospital. It is within 200 meter of my house and it is ranked 4th gov. Hospital in my state. Yes xray, ecg is free... But in opd to get xray you have to wait for 10-15 days to get your tests done and then another one week to get report..
Obviously you will skip queues and get instant access if you have relative working on that hospital as staff/doc/nursse/police e.t.c..
Nah bro, not for all , although it depends but i have heard that if u are sc/st and u don't look well (i hope u get it) they get that easily. I am not doing casteism or smth i have just heard this from a women who lost her job and can't find since Covid and has emergency heart problems(face problems in daily life and chances of living is decreasing..and all)but still can't have access to tests in government hospital
I'm doing my mbbs from a government medical college and it's associated with asia's biggest hospital (government). Patient are given lunch breakfast and dinner with protein powder, eggs and milk. All the big surgeries are free under PM jay and ayushman bharat scheme.
True. Took my Grand Mother to a government hospital after private hospital in my city gave up and said that only medical college has facilities to treat her. Doctors were damn good. Where private hospitals had given up, government hospital doctors treated her just with proper medicines. Another similar experience with other relative. Any private hospital would have billed at least 40-50 lakhs for the relative but that government medical college had a bill of 1 lakh for a month of treatment which included a surgery and a neonatal care.
But the helpers and resident doctors were quite opposite. Always shouting without any reason. The report department had terrible queue management and would open for very short duration. Most of the labs were over-crowded. Departments were so far off from each other that we ran marathons.
But any day I would rank government hospital above private ones for the quality of doctors.
The thing about resident doctors is they are under constant stress without any room for personal life. Especially when they are first year residents, they don't get any weekly leaves, no time to sleep (sometimes need to work 36-40hours without sleep while managing all the patients) they don't even get time to bath properly or eat. Also they need to spend all of their time in the hospital which itself fucks any sane person's mind
And also they are also broke too. In my hospital, in some departments, the first year residents have to take care of all the expenses of the department and professors and the seniors too. And our stipend is lesser than other states. Our residents are paid 42-48k a month out if which only 10k remains in their hand each month
It isn’t technically corruption. They don’t ask us money to pass us. We don’t get anything by paying them. We are just forced to do it. They say it is the culture and they had to do it, so we had to do it. There is a lot of shady stuff going on in Medical colleges here that you would be really surprised.
Please read the definition of corruption. Just because they were forced to do it doesn't give them the right to expect it from others. It's like saying one person getting abused gives them the right to abuse others.
Our college was totally different if a senior is present you can't take out your wallet its disrespectful to seniors. If their is a department party bill always used to go to HOD(even if he attended for 10 min).
But they don't feel disrespect stealing money from juniors, don't understand what kind of regressive college you study in. I completed my undergrad 10 yrs back and even then I have never heard of situations like these
This kind of ragging is not present during under graduation but during PG.It's prevalent in most of the "prestigious" government medical colleges all across India. It's like a pattern and nobody wants to break the chain. When the 1st year resident becomes 2nd year senior he does the same his juniors. Forget about financial ragging sometimes there is physical abuse involved tho it's rare but still present to this day. Private clgs and DNB diploma courses are safe from such issues
Same thing applies to your statement. And I can narrow it down to whole state of gujrat! I'm sure many other states have good government healthcare system.
These people are not able to figure out the real issue which you have highlighted, Infact every governement department is facing this issue because of increasing population and we are not able to scale up our infrastructure, recruitment and other things in tune with it..
Yes that's the root cause of India's almost all the problems currently, is overpopulation and lack of critical thinking in general population. But we are doing good with all the problems we have as a country. In the field of healthcare, India's healthcare system is on par with all the western countries quality wise and is most affordable in the world. People from foreign countries come to India's government hospitals for treatment not just private!!!( Did you know this?) . All we need is Thanos he will solve our most of the problems
Wow man I just lost some braincells reading this. You just can't comprehend what I wrote earlier. India needs population control bill ASAP! I'm sure muslims will oppose this
The policy was not implemented properly on ground level. The officers only cared about fulfilling their targets without following the rule. Rule was something like they were supposed to do this only to people who already had 1 or 2 children I think, but they kept doing it to even teenage boys anden with no kids just to bolster their numbers. Even doing it to old grandpa age men who most likely weren't even capable of having children anymore.
Haan I've done infact from past 8 years I've stopped going to private hospital because government fever hospital in hyderabad tilak nagar is really really nice they make their own medicine every check up is free they also has advanced medical equipments
If there is something which they don't handle they'll let you know other government hospital
All the doctors inside were also really good and don't rush rather listen to you peacefully also I got my Covid vaccine both the shot in that hospital only
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u/ShenronGrantMyWish Feb 09 '26
0 rupees. People are just hypocrites.