Today’s world is all about quality. You have quality food,quality equipment, quality performance in various professions, and also qualitysystems. Of these systems that govern today’s world, from local tointernational, the most important one is that of governance. If this matchesthe standards of quality set by the developed nations the life of peoplebecomes easier, comfortable, and safe.
But unfortunately in our part of the world the system of governance is no where near the standards set by the successful governments around the world. That is the reason why the quality of our services is below standard. The news story that there is “No regulatory body to check quality, price of medical implants in JK”, is very disturbing.
Healthcare is a service that is very crucial. It directly deals with the wellbeing of the people. Any lacuna in this means a direct threat to the lives of the people. We have been battling with the problem of spurious and fake drugs for quite some time now.
There have been umpteen reports about how the sub standarddrugs have flooded our markets and how the lives of the ordinary people arebeing played with. Of the same nature is the problem of this low qualitymedical implants.
We all know that it is only a severe medical conditions thatrequires such implants. People spend huge money in getting these implants, andin most of the cases elaborate procedures are performed to fix these implants.Imagine a situation where patients undergo operations, and then a low qualityimplants is fixed in the human body.
Just after some time the problem surfaces up and the patienthas to undergo a fresh procedure. And in all likelihood patient suffers furtherdamage all this while. So it is a pressing requirement that the governmentensures a strict quality control on the medical implants available in ourmarkets. Those who resort to wrong practices in this regard need to be severelypunished so that they serve as a lesson for others.