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India surprised to find Bangladeshis coming for simple pathological tests
Nurul Islam Hasib, from New Delhi, bdnews24.com

Published: 2015-10-05 19:19:01.0 BdST Updated: 2015-10-05 20:25:07.0 BdST


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Many Bangladeshis are coming to India for “routine pathological tests”, a finding that surprises Indian businesses.







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This was found in a ‘White Paper’ the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) released on Monday at the opening of the first-ever international summit on medical value travel in New Delhi.

Bangladesh’s health sector has come a long way with private sector investments, despite low government spending.

International groups like India’s Apollo and Malaysia’s KPJ have set up facilities in Dhaka.

But this Indian finding points to a serious lack of confidence among the people in the health care system.

Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Prof Kamrul Hassan Khan sees no reason for Bangladeshis to go to India for routine medical tests.

“I would say it’s information gap. They don’t know what we are doing or what we can offer. We could not spread the information properly,” Prof Khan, a pathologist, told bdnews24.com.

“Agencies working for foreign hospitals also play a role in luring patients away to their hospitals,” he said on the sidelines of the summit.

The three-day meet drew 520 participants from 65 countries, mostly of Asia, Africa, the Middle-East and the CIS, the last being a grouping of former Soviet republics

The FICCI along with the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry is hosting this summit to promote India as a “premier global healthcare destination”.

The objective is a unique amalgamation of ‘5Ts’—talent, tradition, technology, tourism and trade—as India is emerging as a preferred healthcare destination for patients across the globe for some of its world-class facilities.



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The ‘state-of-the-art’ treatment costs much less than it does in the rival regional establishments of Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis are believed to be among patients going to India for treatment, though there is no official statistics on this.

The FICCI ‘White Paper’, however, said an estimated 500 patients come to India from Bangladesh daily for treatment.

“Surprisingly many Bangladeshis come to India for routine pathological tests and not complicated procedures,” it noted.

Nine out of 10 head for private hospitals in Kolkata, while the rest go to south India, mainly to the Christian Medical College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

According to their analysis, Bangladeshis prefer coming to India because of easy accessibility by road, “even for people without the appropriate documents”.

Until the early 2000s, there were two main private hospitals in Kolkata –Ruby General Hospital and Peerless General Hospital – that served Bangladeshi patients.

Over the last 10 years, at least four others have entered the field and more are in the pipeline, “all eyeing the ever-expanding business from people across the border”.

It said Peerless Hospital was exploring a local tie-up to open clinics in Chittagong, Rajshahi and Dhaka.

People travelling from one country to another for treatment contribute to global business. Last year, it was a $43 billion market globally, according to the FICCI.

India, which attracted medical tourists only from its neighbouring countries once, is now aiming to get closer to earnings of about $4 billion from medical tourism by the end of this year.

The FICCI says patients from the US, UK and other developed nations have started making “a beeline” to India for treatment.

“The reason is simple, extremely low cost healthcare services compared to their country of residence,” according to its report.

An analysis indicates that South East Asia and Africa account for the highest number of patient arrivals followed by the CIS, and the Middle East.

Hospital CEOs, however, raised some areas of concerns including the issue of accreditation at the opening of the summit.

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It said Peerless Hospital was exploring a local tie-up to open clinics in Chittagong, Rajshahi and Dhaka.
They have to shut down their hospital inside Bangladesh as Bangladeshi patient will still prefer the one in Kolkata.The main issue is our patient have distrust for the local doctors.You can setup branch of Mount Elisabeth hospital of Singapore in BD, but patient will still go to Singapore for treatment.There are no shortage of good quality hospitals in Bangladesh, but they still run to India,Singapore.

I can remember one story from our novelist Humayun Ahmed.While staying in New York he admitted into a reputed hospital there for gasto-intestinal problem.There he met many Bangladeshi patient who have came to new york for treatment.When those patients learned that head of the department of Gasrtoenterology is a Bangladeshi origin doctor,many of those patient burst into anger, as they expected White american doctor to treat them.:lol::lol:
 
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The main issue is our patient have distrust for the local doctors.
Our doctors are no saints. Most of them would have joined medical college by paying large donations. The issue arises bcos ppl dont trust the system and the ppl produced by it. This reputation is passed by one generation to another and reinforced effectively by the current ppl in the system. Until our system gets rid of corruption and treats ppl on merit this will happen. Think of it there are many politicians who own the hospitals and they still prefer foreign hospitals over their own. Politicians get admitted to their own hospitals only when they need to fake heart attacks!
 
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lol ...in coming eid kolkata will see another boom in their shopping malls. Get ready :P
 
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India’s famed cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty feels ‘sad’ to see plight of Bangladeshi patients

Nurul Islam Hasib from Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh bdnews24.com


Published: 2016-04-22 01:28:08.0 BdST Updated: 2016-04-22 01:56:51.0 BdS


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India’s best-known cardiac surgeon Dr Devi Shetty says he feels “sad” to see Bangladeshi mothers carrying their newborn babies and travelling all the way to Bangalore for a simple procedure.



He said those procedures could have been done in Bangladesh. But they travel for three and a half days by train or bus to come and “spend 10 minutes with me” because of “trust, love and affection”.

“Some of them do not even need operations,” he told bdnews24.com in a brief interaction at the ongoing global exhibition on services in Greater Noida, some 30 kilometres off New Delhi.

“We develop trust in some people, and then wherever they are they travel all the way to Bangalore,” he said.

Bangladesh has developed its cardiac surgeries discipline in recent years, but Dr Shetty still remains a household name for many, particularly for those who need their newborns’ heart operated for congenital problems.

He is the chairman and founder of Narayana Health City which is known for “quality but low-cost” services.

He is known for his pioneering inexpensive cardiac surgeries in India.

Dr Shetty is also renowned for being Mother Teresa’s heart surgeon.

He believes that there are simple solutions that can make healthcare affordable. He receives patients from all over South Asia.

“I guess it is the trust, love and affection we have for each other which keeps growing,” he said when asked what drives patients to him.

“This is an example I give to all the young doctors. This is a fantastic profession where you can touch the lives of millions and millions of people, and you can be a hero in real life and this is what this profession does”.

“And that is why this keeps us growing even at this stage of our life,” he said.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday inaugurated the three-day mega exhibition, which is showcasing and discussing possibilities of making the Indian services sector more competitive globally to generate jobs and wealth.

The Commerce Ministry, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Service Export Promotion Council (SEPC) have jointly organised the event, bringing together representatives of over 60 countries.

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Bangladesh ‘successfully’ performs 21 bone-marrow transplants in two years
Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com

Published: 2016-06-05 20:24:40.0 BdST Updated: 2016-06-05 20:24:40.0 BdST
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Health Minister Mohammed Nasim visited the centre in the day and met the press flanked by Prof Khan who spoke about the past successes and future plans.

Nasim congratulated them on their successes, and urged the rich to come forward to support the centre so that the poor can afford the sophisticated service.

The centre was inaugurated on Oct 20, 2013 on the ninth floor of the new DMCH building, which was remodelled, with the help of the Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

MGH trained up its nurses and doctors while the government spent about Tk 200 million on the whole project.

The transplant began in Mar 2014, ushering in a new era in Bangladesh’s medical science.

In bone marrow transplantation, doctors replace damaged or destroyed bone marrow – the soft and spongy tissue inside bones – with healthy bone marrow stem cells to treat different types of blood cancer, certain genetic blood and immunity disorders like thalassemia, and severe aplastic anaemia.

There are no official data about people needing bone-marrow transplants in Bangladesh but doctors say many go abroad for this replacement.

But the costs in Bangladesh are less than a third of what it costs abroad.

The centre is offering ‘autologous’ transplant procedure in which one’s own bone marrow is used.

Prof Khan said his plan was to introduce the ‘allogeneic’ procedure which is more critical because in this process, the bone marrow of siblings or donors is used.

He said they also want to launch ‘marrow donor programme’ to collect bone marrow for the allogeneic procedure.

He urged the rich to come forward so that they can set a public-private-partnership model to run the government centre.
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While our doctors are performing bone marrow transplantation, Gullible bloke from our country are running to india in each time they get a diarrhoea.:sick:
 
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They have to shut down their hospital inside Bangladesh as Bangladeshi patient will still prefer the one in Kolkata.The main issue is our patient have distrust for the local doctors.You can setup branch of Mount Elisabeth hospital of Singapore in BD, but patient will still go to Singapore for treatment.There are no shortage of good quality hospitals in Bangladesh, but they still run to India,Singapore.

I can remember one story from our novelist Humayun Ahmed.While staying in New York he admitted into a reputed hospital there for gasto-intestinal problem.There he met many Bangladeshi patient who have came to new york for treatment.When those patients learned that head of the department of Gasrtoenterology is a Bangladeshi origin doctor,many of those patient burst into anger, as they expected White american doctor to treat them.:lol::lol:

Typical sub-continental mentality.

My good friend, Chairman of a well-known Bangladeshi counterpart of a well-known Indian company founded by the British, is undergoing excellent treatment right there in Dhaka, when he could have afforded the best of the best in the US.

I think an additional factor is that Bangladeshis are very comfortable in Calcutta. There are parts of central Calcutta, around New Market, Marquis Street to Wellington Street, that are almost exclusively dedicated to Bangladeshi tourists, most of them medical patients and their attenders, some of them general tourists come to see the sights, buy books, generally relax, eat, and have a good time, in a city they can understand, speaking a language they can understand.
 
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I am surprise to hear Bangladeshis can afford Indian Hospitals.
 
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Typical sub-continental mentality.

My good friend, Chairman of a well-known Bangladeshi counterpart of a well-known Indian company founded by the British, is undergoing excellent treatment right there in Dhaka, when he could have afforded the best of the best in the US.

I think an additional factor is that Bangladeshis are very comfortable in Calcutta. There are parts of central Calcutta, around New Market, Marquis Street to Wellington Street, that are almost exclusively dedicated to Bangladeshi tourists, most of them medical patients and their attenders, some of them general tourists come to see the sights, buy books, generally relax, eat, and have a good time, in a city they can understand, speaking a language they can understand.

I thought Bangladesh at least has enough of good garment industries, but Bangladeshis come to Kolkata in large numbers even for marriage shopping and shopping for festivals.

While our doctors are performing bone marrow transplantation, Gullible bloke from our country are running to india in each time they get a diarrhoea.:sick:

It's about the 'Trust' factor......deep inside even Bangladeshis know it...:P
 
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