Medicine-business in Eye Hospital

 

How well-known Eye Specialists in Eye Hospital ....
grabs commission from   contact eye-lens

It has been revealed that a number of Eye Specialists have been involved in a transaction involving 51% commission for quite sometime directing patients who are in need of  contact lenses for their eyes by giving them wrong advice to purchase those lenses.

Because of this racket in a country where there are people who donate their eyes, people who are still among the living are being victimised


and those who sell lenses and doctors themselves earn lakhs a day, it is reported.

The revelation comes from the Sunday Divaina. Its report is as follows:
                                                                                                                           Normally, when one reaches old age, it is a common fact that people begin to suffer from weak eyesight. There is no discretion whether the person is poor or rich. It is a situation common to labourers as well as doctors alike. Removing the condition that affects the eyes takes place in government as well as private hospitals. A lens should be inserted to the eye after the operation is performed to regain sight. These lenses are sold at various places in the local market and are costly. In order to gt the eye operation done, those of the affluent class visit private hospitals. For the poor, it is the government hospital that comes to their assistance always. As such, lenses are available free of charge to them by the government. The lens transplant done in government hospitals is estimated at Rs. 8000; but the price marked by the Drugs Board is Rs. 20000 per lens. There are lenses available at even a higher price. These transplants are carried out by specialist Eye Surgeons in each  such government hospital. Among these doctors are racketeer-doctors who disgrace their own profession. Suffering from glaucoma is a gold mine for them and a delicacy.

Parents who come to them, after examination are told that the glaucoma condition has to be treated and a lens has to be fitted. There are patients among them who are aware that lenses are given free from the eye lenses hospital. There are those who do not know also.

"Aney sir .... the lens is given free isn't it? the patient asks. "No .... no that lens is not good. The other thing is you'll have to wait in the waiting list a long time", the doctor who frightens the patient so saying then grabs a a piece of paper a his disposal and after writing something on it, he then places his seal and while giving it to the patient or the latter's relation, tells Here .... bring this lens here". 

The patient takes it to the pharmacy. To regain sight the lens is absolutely necessary. Because of that very reason he hands over the slip of paper given by the doctor to the pharmacy and buys the lens. Its price is Rs. 20000.

What the Eye Specialist writes and gives the patient is the name of a Drug Company from  where the lens is imported and sold and with whom he has cordial relationships. Sometime the doctor directly tells the patient from which pharmacy he should buy it from. At the end of the day, the owner of the pharmacy calculates the number of lenses sold by him according to instructions issued by the doctor to the purchaser. As such, he then separates 51% of cash from the sum of Rs. 20000 to the doctor concerned from each such lens sold. Which is, that from every single lens so sold, the Eye Specialist is credited with a commission of Rs. 10,200. If the free lens given by the government to the patient at Rs. 8000, will the Eye Specialist receive the sum of Rs. 10200? These racketeer doctors reject transplanting the lens freely offered to these patients whose vision is impaired because of the lust they have for the commission money.

When this racket which was being carried on by the doctors was revealed, the Ministry of Health issued a red light to these doctors. But it fell on deaf ears and they continue with the racket.

We meet many a person on the roads, trains and buses begging to buy a lens for their eyes. That is to collect Rs. 20000 to purchase the lens prescribed by those hoodwinking racketeers. Though the government provides the facility of lenses free of charge to these helpless people after the operation has been performed .... these people still go begging. It is because the freely-given lens is of no use to the doctor, but to the patient. These doctors that we are referring to here are those who are toying with the eyes of helpless people. These doctors who lust for money by mortgaging or by keeping security or by selling another person's eyes .... they themselves should contemplate as to where they are destined to end up after their death!

Report -- Ajith Alahakoon