A woman asked her grandmother:
"How did you stay loyal to one man for 52 years?"
Her grandmother laughed and said:
"Because I understood one thing about men that most women learn too late."
Then she explained...
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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Notable hardships in life till now
📌Pass board exams
📌Get into engineering
📌Get job
📌Get a house
🎈Book ticket on IRCTC for Deepawali and Chatt puja
Last one is Insurmountable 🫡
#irctc#indianrailways#ticket#indianrailways
Wow! What a thoughtful gesture! 👏
Take a glimpse at the goody bag given to media personnel covering BRICS in Bharat.
A wonderful shout-out to “Vocal for Local.” ❤️🇮🇳
ये मैं हूँ, और ये मेरा टीवी है। धन्यवाद कि आपने पूरी बात लोगों तक पहुँचाई।
36 महीने की वारंटी, 22वें महीने में टीवी खुद खराब हुआ। ना डेंट, ना क्रैक। Sony ने "external damage" कह दिया, कोई टेस्ट रिपोर्ट नहीं दिखाई, और बिल भेज दिया।
दो महीने हो गए। Sony की तरफ से एक कॉल या एक ईमेल तक नहीं आया। पहले चुप्पी, फिर सीधा वकील का नोटिस।
मैंने हर बार सिर्फ एक चीज़ मांगी: या तो टेस्ट रिपोर्ट दिखाओ, या वारंटी में ठीक करो।
नोटिस और मेरा जवाब: https://t.co/mqUiXVPjyC
#SorryBravia
5 करोड़ का लीगल नोटिस सिर्फ इसलिए क्योंकि किसी ग्राहक ने सच बोल दिया।
एक बंदे ने डेढ़ लाख का Sony Bravia टीवी खरीदा था।
22वें महीने में टीवी में ग्रीन लाइनें आ गईं, वारंटी अभी बाकी थी।
कंपनी के पास गया तो बोले ये external damage है, कवर नहीं होगा।
कोई डेंट नहीं था न कोई क्रैक, फिर भी टीवी ठीक करने के 29 हजार मांग लिए।
बंदा गुस्से में आया और उसने Sony Bravia dot com नाम का डोमेन खरीद लिया।
उस पर पूरी कहानी डिटेल में लिख दी अपने सारे प्रूफ के साथ।
अब Sony ने वकील भेज दिया, बोले वीडियो हटाओ, माफी मांगो
वरना 5 करोड़ का डैमेज केस ठोक देंगे।
बंदे ने माफी मांगने से साफ मना कर दिया
बोला जो लिखा है सच लिखा है।
कंज्यूमर कोर्ट में केस भी डाल दिया, चैलेंज भी दे दिया कि लैब में टीवी चेक करवा लो।
एक आम आदमी अकेले एक बिलियन डॉलर कंपनी से भिड़ गया है और अभी तक पीछे नहीं हटा है।
@Livpure_India Your team called me on Thursday, they told will expedite the visit. Today I received message just few min ago saying service engineer is at my door step. Surprisingly Mr.Deepak Yadav is invisible and i couldn't locate him. Please suggest.
@Livpure_India Your team called me on Thursday, they told will expedite the visit. Today I received message just few min ago saying service engineer is at my door step. Surprisingly Mr.Deepak Yadav is invisible and i couldn't locate him. Please suggest.
@Livpure_India Your team called me on Thursday, they told will expedite the visit. Today I received message just few min ago saying service engineer is at my door step. Surprisingly Mr.Deepak Yadav is invisible and i couldn't locate him. Please suggest.
@Livpure_India@LivpureSmart I have twice registered service request but no action yet! Your customer care tells we are escalating this and will be done today but no action. Please help.
@Livpure_India
@Livpure_India Your team called me on Thursday, they told will expedite the visit. Today I received message just few min ago saying service engineer is at my door step. Surprisingly Mr.Deepak Yadav is invisible and i couldn't locate him. Please suggest.
चीन का हेलीकॉप्टर उस जगह पहुंचा जहां ग्लेशियर टूटा था और उससे निकले पानी ने नेपाल में भारी तबाही मचाई थी। इस घटना को GLOF कहते हैं।
ग्लेशियल लेक आउटबर्स्ट फ्लड (#GLOF) तब आ सकता है, जब ग्लेशियर द्वारा रोकी गई झील का बांध अचानक टूट जाए। 🌊🧊
पानी के दबाव और ग्लेशियर में बनी दरारों से बाहर निकलने का रास्ता बन जाता है। इसके बाद झील में जमा भारी मात्रा में पानी और मलबा बेहद तेज़ रफ्तार से पहाड़ों से नीचे की ओर बहता है, जिससे अचानक और विनाशकारी बाढ़ आ सकती है।
#GlacialFlood #NepalFloods #Nepal
Today, I just narrowly escaped on ORR soon after entering from the Shamsabad Entry. I was negotiating a turn when a RMC truck suddenly came from the wrong side. God just saved me. Please take necessary action.
A doctor’s perspective on a broken system:
If a medical veteran with 25 years of experience felt the weight of hospital bureaucracy during a family crisis, what happens to the common citizen?
@JPNadda Ji, we need to simplify the patient journey.
Direct solutions for a more empathetic healthcare system:
> Unified Digital Admission: A real-time, centralised portal for bed availability & OT bookings to eliminate "influence-based" access.
> Standardised Insurance Desk: Mandatory 24/7 "Fast-Track" counters in hospitals for immediate paperwork waiver in emergency/critical cases.
> Plain-Language Consent: Transition from complex legal forms to simple, multi-lingual checklists that families can actually understand.
> Patient Navigators: Trained hospital staff dedicated to guiding non-medical families through the administrative maze.
Healthcare should be about healing, not struggling with forms.
It’s time to bridge the gap between "the system" and the people. 🇮🇳