Harassment at DMCH gate

The nexus between the hospital employees and the ambulance drivers is so diabolic that they even prevent patients or their relatives from hiring any taxicab. It was horrifying to learn that some of the patients are taken away without even a release order from hospital authorities. The gang at the emergency gate sometimes became so thuggish that they damaged some taxi-cabs responding to hiring calls. This is a clear reflection of thugs taking medicare into their hands.

Whatever little medicare could be available to people is being hijacked by mercenary groups and the hospital authorities seem powerless before them. The level of indifference can be gauged from how a health directorate official tried to wash his hands off by saying that whatever took place outside the hospital boundary was none of his business. But could he explain the goings-on inside the premises that culminated into the kind of harassment that patients suffered outside? We have written many times over about the racketeering that rules the roost near hospitals, but nothing seems to have been done as yet. Resultantly, new methods and traps are laid to take patients away from government hospitals into private clinics against their will and at a great economic hardship to them.

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