Medico Friend Circle (MFC), a national level network of health professionals and activists, are shocked and pained by the arrest and detention of its long-standing, senior member—Doctor Saibal Jana.
To those of us working in the field of health, it is clear that there is a significant deterioration in India in the conditions needed for people’s health.
At the inauguration of a hospital in Mumbai, funded by Reliance Foundation, on 25 October, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that we feel ashamed of ourselves when we compare our country to the rest of the world in the health sector.
The recent BMJ article by David Berger (BMJ 2014; 348:g3169) has raised the ugly issue of medical corruption in India. We have many conscientious doctors lamenting the fading ethics in medicine.
