IS INDIA'S HEALTH SECTOR DOING WELL????

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India's health care system is characterized by a pattern of mixed ownership and with different systems of medicine - Allopathy, Ayurvedic, Unnani, Sidda and Homeopathy. Three major groups in health care in the country, the public health sector, the private health sector and the households who utilize health services.

A report In A British Journal-Patients from western nations like the UK and USA are capitalising on the quick and cheap operations - from routine procedures to heart bypass - provided by India's growing private health industry.

But in public health services many drugs and diagnostic tests remain unavailable. Indians waiting to see harassed doctors face grubby surroundings and "hordes of other patients". There are even reports of hospital patients having to pay bribes to get clean bed linen.



ARE WE DOING WELL........???UR VIEWS