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RTH - right to health

I had been to a hospital. And I paid 70 rupees for consultation fees and 70 rupees for scanning. No, no, I really did not miss out a zero there. It is not seven hundred, but seventy.. And I am not talking about the visit thirty years back, but only last week. And in Bangalore. Yes, there are some charitable hospitals which still offer good health care services at affordable prices. This one is run by Udupi math. Though it is almost 15 kms from my house, and even though there are many hospitals near my home, I went there because I do not believe in most of the hospitals. They ask you to get so many tests done and prescribe something which most of the times do not cure you. All the while they extract as much money as possible. And I know most of you have a similar opinion of the hospitals around you, but have to visit them because there is no other alternative. If we complain like this, what about poor people? How do they afford the medical bills? Should we let them simply suffer be...