The petition filed by lawyer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ashwini Upadhyay stated that around 70 percent of India’s population lives in since rural areas but 52 percent of allopathic doctors are practicing in just five States — Maharashtra (15%), Tamil Nadu (12%), Karnataka (10%), Andhra Pradesh (8%) and Uttar Pradesh (7%).
This, Upadhyay argued, means that rural India still remains deprived of medicinal benefits and this is reflected in highly skewed distribution of health workforce across States.
“As doctors are confined to a few States but patients reside across India, it has led to introduction of several health care mediators and they are ruining the integrity of Indian health care system as they tend to fetch more money from patients in the name of providing better treatment. This situation is highly un-ethical and illegal as it will deprive the diseased individuals from attaining health benefits due to their inability to pay high health expenses,” the plea said.
Source: Barandbench
