Udupi: Peoples struggle to save District Hospital - succor of poor from clutches of corporate

Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 04 Sep 2016: The district women and child hospital (Haji Abdulla Hospital) was the succor of poor patients that should not be handed over to private hospital thereby depriving poor of free healthcare services, urged struggle Committee for rescuing the district hospital from the clutches of corporate hospital.

 

 

 

The veteran psychiatrist Dr P V Bhandary who is leading the struggle said, ‘The district hospital should not be handed over the management to the corporate hospital in whatever forms. The corporate can donate healthcare facilities and should not run as a joint venture,  The district hospital sans many facilities that got to be provided by the government without giving scope for private enterprise to take over,’ said Dr Bhandary.

 

Corporate failure

The state government should learn from the mistake in allowing the Apollo Hospital to run district hospital in Raichur and that is in financial crisis after repossessing. Seventy primary health centers (PHCs) from across the state that are allowed to run by private hospitals are now in pathetic condition. When these cases are in front of the government, it’s not appropriate to hand over the Udupi district hospital to private entities, added Dr Bhandary.

 

Let info be made public

The social activist K Faniraj said that there is no transferency in handing over the state-run hospital in Udupi to private entities. The people have every right to know the reason behind state move that is anti-democratic, cautioned Faniraj.