Indian Hospital Fire: Dark Side Of Medical Tourism
For foreign “medical tourists” and a tiny fraction of the Indian elite, shining urban hospitals treat patients with the latest in diagnostic and surgical procedures. Multi-room suites and platinum waiting lounges rival five star hotels, or at least European airports, for opulence. But a recent hospital fire that killed 96 patients at Kolkata’s AMRI Hospital shows just how hollow those institutions can be behind the facade, writes the Globe and Mails Stephanie Nolen
The “shocking truth about first world care” is as follows:
The hospital had no working sprinkler system, and no functioning smoke alarms. Staff had no fire training and many members fled when the blaze began in the early hours of the morning.
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