Doctors Of Private Clinics Cheat Patients

Doctors, especially the senior ones, have developed a new technique of cheating patients most of whom are, of course, from poor economic status. The state-run hospitals are of no avail for the treatment of serious illness and the private ones have skyrocketing tariff beyond the reach of the economically downtrodden. Yet they are forced to follow the doctors wherever they set up their private clinics.

A few days back I went to Kathmandu to visit a famous doctor, who works at a private hospital, for the treatment of one of my relatives. "Famous" as he is considered, the fee was almost double the normal charge. The money was paid willingly as if the doctor had magical wand and would remove the old woman’s ailment in no time. The groaning patient swirled in agony but intermittently brightened with a high hope of recovery before the doctor’s door opened.

But to everybody’s surprise, when the door opened it was not the one we expected but his assistant.

Kiran Mainali
Karmaiya Sarlahi

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