ranjan

Corruption in hospitals can be defined as abuse of entrusted power for 'Private Gain'. It adversely effects the most needed sources costing lives of the patients who come for treatment. These hospitals never ever care for such patients and extracts money from them by taking tests (sometimes not even needed). They project the image of sick person as if the tests are not done, patient will die.  There are four types of corruption - Supply vs. Demand corruption  Public vs. Private corruption, Grand vs. Petty corruption and Convential vs. Unconventional corruption. A number of sting operations has been carried out in India to reflict the corruption in health sector not so long in the past. The sting operation "Operation Jonk" was carried out on 22nd July 2014 by News Nation, Hindi news channel disclosed the nexus between doctors and diagnostic centres on how they are deceiving patients but conducting unnecessary tests and doctors getting commissions in return. Another sti