This is the other odd thing I’ve discovered about big expensive private hospitals in India. They run like large, up-scale commercial brothels. The hospital rooms and facilities are rented out by the month or by the hour (as in the case of the Operation Theaters) to whichever doctor wants to rent them.
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What Can We Do With India’s Killing and Scavenging Hospitals?
Posted by Rita Banerji on December 10, 2011
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/what-can-we-do-with-indias-killing-and-scavenging-hospitals/
A Lesson Learnt One ThanksGiving
An American friend today emailed me some of his favorite ‘Thanksgiving’ anecdotes. And I in turn sent him one of mine. And then I thought maybe I should share it on my blog too — it might resonate with others as it has with me. This happened when I was living in Washington D.C. [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on November 25, 2011
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/302/
When Potato Cartels Kill
March 24, 2010 A potato farmer, Maktabul Hussein, only 18 years old, committed suicide today in Jalpaiguri, in West Bengal. Why? Because the price of potatoes have dropped so much that he could not make up the money to pay back the Rs. 500,000/- loans he had taken to cultivate his land. Maktabul was getting [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on March 26, 2010
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/when-potatoes-kill/
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