Healers Or Predators?

By Samiran Nundy, Keshav Desiraju, Sanjay Nagral
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For every story of optimism about the growth of medical tourism to India, there are multiple others about medical neglect. Scratch the surface and you find a thick layer of corruption in this life-sustaining sector. This hard-hitting volume shows a mirror to society and, more specifically, to those associated with the health sector on how healers, in many cases, are shifting shape to becoming predators. In the essays by contributors from within and outside the medical fraternity, we see the many faces, the many facets of corruption from exorbitant billing by corporate hospitals to the non-merit-based selection in medical colleges to questionable motives playing strong in the area of organ transplantation. But Healers or Predators? is not only about the illness affecting the sector. It also offers solutions and some stories of hope.

The Foreword by Amartya Sen is an added bonus.

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Healers Or Predators? Corruption In India's Healthcare
July 17, 2018, NDTV

A new book 'Healers Or Predators?' highlights corruption in India's healthcare sector. The book, written by doctors, talks about many different crises patients face every day. While patients have always trusted their doctors - this trust is now breaking down as this book confirms that every aspect of medical care in India is riddled with corruption. On this show, we look at how bad the corruption in medical care in India is, how does it impact all our lives and what can be done to fix the system.