India's silent epidemic

The Hindu : Health / Policy & Issues : India's silent epidemic: "A national television channel had a 30-minute special recently on how private hospitals are denying free medical treatment to poor patients. Under a quota, private hospitals are expected to provide medical treatment at concessional rates for patients from economically weaker sections. This has been observed more in the breach, according to the special report. Shocking as this was, what was more horrific to read at the same time was the news of the death of a pregnant woman buried on page 3 as a single column. Twenty-four-year-old Reema Bhardwaj, who was nine-months pregnant, died after she was denied admission at a government hospital in Ghaziabad. The baby could not be saved either."