Dr.Srinivasa Raju

  The following article is based on research that was conducted by Susmita Chatterjee of Public Health Foundation of India, Carol Levin of Department of Global Health, University of Washington, USA and Ramanan Laxminarayan of Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. The researchers considered five criteria, including  cost per OPD case, cost per inpatient (IPD), cost per emergency room visit and cost per surgery . For this, they selected five hospitals, based on their willingness to cooperate and the accessibility of hospital data. Two hospitals were from north India and three were from the south. The findings are based on data collected from April 2010 to March 2011.   Now it's 2022. so we may add medical inflation at 12% every year that mounts almost 100%. so, we read the figures by doubling them. FOR 140 crore people, the existing health care infrastructure is not enough. In India, government health care services are organized into several tiers