Doctors as next to God if not God. We still have many doctors with impeccable ethical records. they started
any critical task by the name of God. However, there are many others - not so ethical, and their number is on the rise who don’t think twice before taking their patients for a ride.
Money-minded Bad doctor used the common tactics to cheat or fleece gullible patients of their hard earned money are:
• Prescribing more tests than necessary - to be done at preferred labs (whether in-house at big hospitals or outside labs) for hefty commissions. Sometimes these tests are not even conducted on the samples taken, and fake results are given.
• Keeping you admitted at hospital rooms when you’re fit to be discharged.
• Prescribing expensive medicines/vaccines when cheaper and quality substitutes are available. Often many such medicines/vaccines are available only at prescribed chemist shops. That benefits pharma companies and the doctors who prescribe them but inflate the bills for patients.
• Charging patients at different rates for the same treatment. Top private hospitals are charging according to the room a patient selects even for the same operation by the same doctors in the same operation theatre.
• Fake operations – this is how it happens. A doctor can assess that you can be made to pay. He will say that you need an urgent operation when you don’t really need it. If you’re still not convinced he’ll say that he needs to send a tissue from your throat for testing whether it has a cancerous cell. Most of us don’t argue with our doctors. So you’ll agree. He’ll admit you and give you anaesthesia.
• Unconscious you will be wheeled into operation theatre where your conscious relatives will be not be allowed. After few hours, you’ll be taken out drowsy. After you wake up the doctor will come and say that he has sent your tissue for testing though he doesn’t think you got cancer but he wants to be doubly sure. Can you argue? This again has happened with one of my relatives. After the operation, the doctor simply forgot that he has to discuss the test results before the operation he was very concerned. When my relative approached him to discuss the results of the test even without looking at the reports he smiled and said nothing to worry.
• Use of stent in heart disease treatment even if not needed – 1 stent may cost a patient anything between TK. 1,00,000 -1,20,000 or more depending upon the status of hospitals or pockets of gullible patients. Worse, it may be harmful and may cause death even that doctors take bribes to recommend stents.
On the contrary Millenium Heart and General hospital & Millennium Foundation- is working voluntarily for poor people as non profit prganization.
Millenium Heart and general Hospital become only trust worthy medical center other than government hospitals.
Provide state of the art specialized personal care for every critical patient on 1:1 basis nursing service supervised by trained ICU doctors 24 hours services.
Melliniumm hospitals ICU Services & Facilities are :
o 24 hours supervision underguidence of highly trained consultant in ICU.
o 24 hours presence of internist and ICU doctors .
o 24 hours trained nursing staff for each individual patient.
o Central monitoring system.
o Hi-Tech vital sign monitor for every patient.
o Invasive & non invasive Haemodynamic monitoring system.
o BIS monitoring for assessment of brain activity
o Syringe & infusion pumps for metered medications and accurate volume infusions.
o ltramodern ventilator with monitoring facilities for patient’s own breathing effort.
o Instant ABG analysis within ICU.
o Instant electrolyte assessment within ICU
o Portable vantilators for transporting patients within the hospital for various purposes like CT scan, MRI etc. and for bringing vantilated patients from other hospitals.
o Portable X-ray machine within ICU
o Bed side Echocardiogram and Ultrasonogram.
o Facility to implant temporary pacemaker.
o IABP facility for maintaining blood pressure in circulatory failure patients.
o Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) for patients who are unable to have enteral nutrition.
o Highly specialized physiotherapy services.
Millennium hospital has established also Dialysis system for kidney diseases. Dialysis system is organized specially to poor or poorer people at a subsidized cost or even free. Hospital income is not sufficient enough to support under privileged patient. For this purpose Millennium Foundation is formed . Rich people of the society is requested to raise their hand to support poor people . They can donate their Zakat also.
Millenium Foundation may achieve their target if government and donors come forward to asses the foundation.
Everyone should be dedicated and donate their savings for poor people.
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