Bribery in hospital

Bribery in hospitals

TOMS THAMBI
Roll no. 57
SUB :BUSINESS AND ETHICAL VALUES
Introduction
 our society has to face the biggest challenge
of tackling and corruption.
 Government regulation and social
awareness are there, this menace is still
continuing without any instant cure.
 The major problems are . Gambling ,
prostitution , beggary , war with
neighbouring countries
 Bribery is one of the most common and
controversial issue that our country is
facing.
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BRIBERY
 Bribes are personal payments , gifts, or
special factors granted improperly to
influence the outcome of decision.
 Bribery is a universally condemned and no
government in world legally permits
bribery of its own officials.
 Bribers and recipients of bribery are likewise
numerous although bribers have one
common denominator and that is the
financial ability to bribe.
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 Bribery in hospital

 hospital bribery can occur between patient and

doctor or between patient and other hospital
staff.
 Patients pay to ensure quality care, to guarantee
access to hospital treatment, to skip waiting
lists for operations or complicated diagnostic
procedures, even to get sick-leave certificates
for their employers.
 It is a serious ethical issue of our society
 It also start from top level to bottom level
 The patient will get more care if they pay more.
 The cost of bribes depends on the treatment
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 Bribery in government hospitals

 In government hospital medical professionals are

underpaid, patients may use bribery to solicit
the standard expected level of medical care.
 The government doctors are getting low salary.
 To overcome this problem the government allow
them to doing private practice in free time.
 This was for reducing the bribery, but human
want and need are never ending, if they get one
the next aim to get the other one.
 So increasing salary never reduce the problem.
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  Hospital employees would not
change the bed sheets in
between patients, the nurses
would not give medicine or
injections if they do not get
bribes.
 In the case collecting bribes
we see a unity among the
hospital employees
 Hospital staff were also poorly
paid, so many patients gave
them a gratuity for their
service. Sometimes this
involved 'payment in kind' -
like a bottle of good alcohol
or a box of sweets.
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 Example :
 A case report in last year about
the bribery
 A 30 year old lady, says she did
everything necessary to ensure
a healthy pregnancy .
 But she didn’t gave any bribe to
her gynecologist.
 At the date of delivery, her
gynecologist didn't came at
time. Twelve hours into labor,
she was left alone in her room
for an hour. When a doctor
appeared, the umbilical cord
was wrapped twice around her
baby's head and had nearly
suffocated him. He was blind
and deaf and had suffered
severe brain damage.
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 Bribery in private
hospital

 In private hospital also have bribery

problem more seriously than government
hospital.
 Now the private hospital also act as a
business unit, the main aim is making
profit.
 Here the doctor not directly receive the
bribe from the patient.
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 Here the doctor was acting as a sales
manager and he have some target to
attain.
 If they attain the target they reward by the
hospital management.
 The hospital have lot of machinery, the
doctor prescribe the patient to take a
scanning or ECG etc,
 Through this the patients bill amount
increase and the hospital
 profit also increase.
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 Example;
 If a patient reach the hospital with throat pain due to cold
but the doctor say he have some doubt about that
throat pain.
 He prescribe some medicine and send him for some high
costly check ups like scanning etc
 He also admitted in the hospital
 If the doctor say like this way the patient afraid and take
all the check ups, and he became a patient of serious
disease.
 The doctor exploit the patient.
 Through this the hospital get earning by renting room,
selling medicine , using machineries etc.
Bribery offer of pharmaceutical companies
 The doctor get more bribe from the
pharmaceutical companies or supplier of
medical equipment more than from the
patient.
 There are so many medicine are available
for a disease.
 The doctor is the only person who have the
right to prescribe the medicine.
 The doctor prescribe only the medicine from
he get more benefit.
 So the pharmaceutical companies give
money or gift for prescribing their product.
  Conclusion
 Bribery in hospital field seriously harmed the
public interest.
 We cannot say all doctors take bribery but
most of the doctors and hospital staff are
demanding bribes for their service.
 It is a serious problem faced in every
developing countries.
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 References
 C.S.V Murthy: business ethics
 John R Boatright :- ethics and the conduct of
business
 Websites:
 Scribd.com
 Google.com
 Wikipedia
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