The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.
A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.
A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.
These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.
The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.
A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.
#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe
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An 80-year-old mother is offering to return her son's Shaurya Chakra.
Not in anger at the nation.
In exhaustion.
Assistant Commandant Vivek Saxena fell fighting terrorists in Manipur on 8 January 2003. The country gave him the Shaurya Chakra. The state promised his family land and a memorial. Twenty-two years later, Savitri Saxena is still being sent from office to office. Asked for domicile papers. Asked where she lived before marriage. Asked to keep waiting.
She is 80. She says she no longer has the strength to keep doing the rounds. So she has brought the medal to a grievance camp and said: if this is the honour we give a martyr's mother, take it back.
A son gave his life.
A mother is being asked to prove she belongs.
That should break something in all of us.
@TheLallantop@IndiaToday
No hate, but why the hell are people without 1st AC tickets being allowed inside a 1st AC coach?
This is 1st AC, not a free waiting room. If you don't have a 1st AC ticket, get out.
Sleeper is already ruined. 3 AC is also becoming a mess. Go to a sleeper coach and you will find unreserved ticket passengers sitting and standing everywhere.
People pay extra for 1st AC because they want peace, privacy and basic comfort.
Please don't ruin 1st AC too.
Regularly getting WA messages frm BB about acct credited wid Rs 125, bt nothing when I ordr. When contacted, customer care says i aren't eligible. I wonder y do u send WA messages?????
@bigbasket_com@jaagograhakjago
Big security threat: Empty plot opposite Mumbai T2 International Airport is illegally converted into a Masjid.
No action against encroachers. Why authorities keeps their eyes closed? Pls circulate until it reaches right forum.
Improve ur delvry sys, aftr waitin fr goods ordrd 12 days back, it gets canceled evn tho delvry was confmd 2 hrs befor. At 9, u ask fr availability n in 3 hrs u cancel it without any reason. Dat tu aftr we waited fr 12-13 days......@jaagograhakjago@flipkartsupport
@blinkitcares Nebulizer issue has been solved. Thank you. But the misleading weight on yan yan dip and sticks hasn't been resolved yet. What's the update on that?
My first complaint nt solvd n now hve got defective nebulizer from blinkit dat isn'tworking in 1 day. Ir team is giving different excuses to dodge return and refund. Askin fr videos dat don't get uploaded n many other excuses @jaagograhakjago
@nch2915 @blinkitcares
यासीन मलिक वह दरिंदा आतंकवादी है जिसने सरला भट्ट जैसी मासूम कश्मीरी महिला के साथ न केवल बलात्कार किया बल्कि चार दिन तक अमानवीय तरीके से यातनाएं देकर मार डाला था। मरने से पहले सरला भट्ट के शरीर को दांतों से नोचा गया, सिगरेट से जलाया गया था। उन्हें शक था की सरला भट्ट कश्मीरी पंडितों को भगाने में मदद कर रही है।
ऐसे दरिंदे आतंकी यासीन मलिक को कांग्रेस ने प्रधानमंत्री मनमोहन सिंह के निवास में बुलाकर सम्मानित किया था। उसे शांति का मसीहा बनाया था।
ऐसे कांग्रेसियों को कौन सभ्य इंसान समर्थन देगा?
फिलहाल यासीन मलिक तिहाड़ जेल में सड़ रहा है।
I went to buy 3 kg of Malai Ghewar for Raksha Bandhan, but the shopkeeper’s explanation left me thinking.
Yesterday, I went to buy Malai Ghewar for Raksha Bandhan and told the shopkeeper
"Brother, please give me 3 kg of Malai Ghewar.
The Ghewar was packed, and when it was time to pay, I took out ₹2,400.
The shopkeeper immediately said
"Madam, it will be ₹2,700, it’s ₹900 per kg."
I said
"But I bought it from this same shop just a few days ago for ₹800 per kg.
How did the price suddenly increase by ₹100 per kg ?"
Without missing a beat, the shopkeeper replied
"Madam, do not you watch the news ?
Sugar has become very expensive. That’s why we have increased the prices of sweets too."
I innocently asked
"So, does 1 kg of Ghewar now require ₹100 worth of extra sugar ?"
Hearing this, the shopkeeper laughed and said
"Madam, do not calculate things in such detail. Sugar has become expensive,
so we increased the price by ₹100 per kg."
Now, this is not just about the extra ₹300,
The real question is
When the cost of something goes up, the price is increased immediately.
But when the same cost comes down, why does not the price come down just as quickly ?
If Malai Ghewar can become ₹100/kg more expensive because sugar prices went up,
then when sugar becomes cheaper, will the Malai Ghewar also become ₹100/kg cheaper ?
Or is the market rule simply
"When inflation rises, increase the price.
When inflation falls, find another reason."
#𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚:
𝗖𝗝𝗣 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘃 𝗗𝗮𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴.
But why is he hiding his fathers name. It will be required whereever he goes and whatever he does.
He certainly cannot be Fatherless!
Morovrr, he has 3 birth date ans 2 birth year.
15 January 1999, 16 January 2000, 28 january 2000.
According him, he's 27y old
According to Google, he's 26y old
According to biography, he's 28y old
Nationality me scam
Baap me Scam
Property me scam
Now, Scam in Birth date, birth year and age.
This guy is himself a scam to his parents and his country.
By Manoj Kumar Trivedi
Amazon, ur delivery guys r pathetic. Ordr isn't delivrd n it's showing delivrd. Whn complained, u say it'll now be dlvrd after 2 days. Needed it ASAP n now dis stupidity by ur delvry guy delayed it. Want to cancel bt option isn't der. Ur services r going to dogs.
@AmazonHelp
THE MOST POWERFUL VIDEO TO BEGIN MY DAY:
Tukaram Mundhe ji cracks down on Adulterated Edible Oils. An Entire Generation Consumed Sub-Standard Oil which affected the Health. Restaurants were using Unregulated Second or even Third Hand Oil.
This Man is a Super Hero. These radical steps are welcome.
Maharashtra leads this initiative. I hope the whole country takes Note.
The Whole Country is with @Tukaram_IndIAS ji !!!
Thank you sir. Dil Se ❤️
#FI
A mammogram missed her cousin's breast cancer. By the time it was found it was too late, and she died.
About 6 months later a second woman in the same family was diagnosed. She died as well.
The woman watching this happen was an artificial intelligence researcher.
Her name is Geetha Manjunath.
She grew up in Bengaluru. She took her bachelor's degree in computer science at UVCE, then a master's and a doctorate at the Indian Institute of Science, where she was a gold medallist.
Her first job was at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, where she was part of the team that built India's first commercial supercomputer in the 1990s.
She spent 17 years at Hewlett Packard Labs as a principal research scientist. She then became a lab director at Xerox Research in India, heading their data analytics research.
Then the 2 deaths in her family happened, and she went and read about the disease.
What she found is worth knowing.
In India, roughly half the women diagnosed with breast cancer die of it. Her own words are blunt. Every alternate lady detected with breast cancer is dying.
The reason is almost never the treatment. It is that the disease is found too late.
Mammograms are the standard test. They use x-rays, they are expensive, they are uncomfortable, they need a large fixed machine, and there is a specific medical problem with them. In younger women the breast tissue is denser, and dense tissue and tumours both show up white on the scan. So the tumour can hide.
That is what happened to her cousin.
She started working on it in her spare time, on weekends, with a small team, while still employed.
The idea was to use thermal imaging instead. A cancer uses more energy than normal tissue and the blood flow around it increases, so the area is slightly warmer. A thermal camera can see that heat pattern from a distance, without touching the body and without any radiation.
The hard part is reading it. Heat patterns are messy. That is where her actual expertise came in. She trained machine learning software to interpret them.
Their first test was with a medical college in Manipal, using thermal images of 72 cancer patients.
It worked.
In 2016 she left her job and started a company with a former colleague, Nidhi Mathur. They called it Niramai, which stands for Non Invasive Risk Assessment with Machine Intelligence, and which in Sanskrit also means free from illness.
The test needs no radiation, no touch, no pain, and no one else in the room. It works on women of any age and any breast density. The equipment is portable, so it can be taken to villages.
More than 400,000 women have now been screened across over 250 locations in India. More than 2,000 cancers have been found.
The technology has regulatory clearance in the United States and in Europe. She holds 14 American patents.
She has one line she repeats.
Nobody needs to die of breast cancer, if you can catch it early enough.
🚨 Reality of CJP is Exposed by Gen Alpha.
Saurav Das quoted a video of small kids demanding suspension of School Principal and said that "Ground level awakening in UP".
Now Gen Alpha have Exposed the Dirty politics of CJP.
A kid said that CJP's Workers had promised them to distribute Packets of Biscuits if they'll raise slogans against School Principal and avoid going to school.
@SauravDassss should be booked under POSCO Act for using small kids in political activities.
She is Begum Ayesha Sultana:
• Before marriage, she was Sharmila Tagore.
• She is a direct descendant of Rabindranath Tagore.
• Rabindranath Tagore sang Vande Mataram at the Congress session in 1896.
• Rabindranath Tagore composed the tune for Vande Mataram.
• Now, his descendant, Begum Ayesha Sultana, is saying that the full Vande Mataram should not be sung because many people do not believe in multiple gods.
What a shame for the Tagore family.
A healthier choice should be the easier one.
When idli replaces vada pav and chaas replaces cola in a school canteen,it may appear to be a small change.But It is a shift in the food environment in which children form habits.
#TukaramMundhe#Nutrition#publicHealth#inspiration
We bought Yan Yan double dips frm ur site wt shown was 50 gms, bt prdct shows 44 gms. Got replaced bt again 44 gms. Dis is misleading n unfair.
@letsblinkit@nch1915@jaagograhakjago