Is this true for all Indian hosiptals?

[whoam]

Hi,
I just want to know if this is true for all Indian hospitals or just in certain cities.

In order for a patient to recieve blood, the blood bank must receive the same amount and blood type in return from someone else, on behalf of the patient??

Also if a patient needs any medication, the doctors ask the family to supply it?

Please let me know if this is the policy for all hospitals in India?
Thanks

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[DrGarfield]

these things are not true of all hospitals- or to speak- it is not true in Most hospitals these days.
Voluntary blood donation is promoted and so replacement blood donation is not always required, but in case if the patient has a group that is not readily available, the relatives do try to dig out a proper donor for themselves. Voluntary donation is not very popular yet in India and it can not meet the huge requirements of india, so many times such shortage situations do happen.
For emergency situations there are usually no problems, but for some planned surgeries like spine surgeries and joint surgeries, they may expect the family of the patient to arrange for enough donors to keep up the stock.

About the medicines, yes, usually the patients' relatives are given prescription of the medicines and they do buy it from the market- but again that is not the case for emergency or life saving medications- they are usually available with the hospitals. In the public hospitals the patients dont pay for the medicines or other treatment they recieve in the hospital, but in private hospitals, the cost of the emergency medicines that the hospital used at that time would be added to the final bill of the patient.

 

[Santiago]

Hi,
I just want to know if this is true for all Indian hospitals or just in certain cities.

In order for a patient to recieve blood, the blood bank must receive the same amount and blood type in return from someone else, on behalf of the patient??

Yes..

Also if a patient needs any medication, the doctors ask the family to supply it?

Yes..You will later get the money reimbursed later through mediclaim or whatever insurance you have or your corporate employed allows you..

Please let me know if this is the policy for all hospitals in India?

Yeah, most of the hospitals follow this pattern.

 

[*TRINITY*]

Yes..

Also if a patient needs any medication, the doctors ask the family to supply it?

Yes..You will later get the money reimbursed later through mediclaim or whatever insurance you have or your corporate employed allows you..

Please let me know if this is the policy for all hospitals in India?

Yeah, most of the hospitals follow this pattern.

Most of the hospitals in india are run by government agencies or privated charitable trusts. India being a socialist welfare state it provides healthcare to all its citizens at nominal charges. Most of the time the patients who come to government hospitals are very poor (even Bhikharis) but hospitals dont turn them away they are provided with whatever resources they have. Most of the times govenment hopsitals are packed and chronically out of supplies so many of times doctors serving at these hospitals have to ask patients relatives to buy medicines from outsitde sometimes money is provided to them thro' poor patients fund.

There is a parallel system of corporate hospital which have five star facilities. They usually serve rich and upper middle class people who have access to health insurance ( only 3% population of india have some sort of health insurance).