Medicare fails to take flight for ex-IAF officer

[Achuthan]

See the "sufferings" one has to go through the ECHS to test one's wife's blood. And I am sure this would not have happened if the affected person was an Officer. Don't be mislead by the subject. That was a misnomer captioned by a civilian journalist. Dear Sirs, I am  not prejudiced or partisan towards  the ORs. But the fact is a fact. May be the Sgt in question should have approached the Oi/c ECHS in the first place instead of being shuttled around. But the fact remains that an ECHS clinic wouldn't have asked a retired officer to go from this particular clinic to that clinic just because he did not fall within the jurisdiction of the first ECHS clinic. And all this after being shunted out by the Command Hospital. 

I want this to change. Could someone in the higher ranks please take up this matter with the ECHS MD? I am sure a  Maj. Gen's or Lt. Gen's mail would matter the most than a Sgt's. Hence this request.

Now for the subject matter. Please click on the link or copy-paste on the address line:

Medicare fails to take flight for ex-IAF officer

http://www.punemirror.in/article/2/2013011620130116091644269d3ba782f/Medicare-fails-to-take-flight-for-exIAF-officer.html

Regards

Achuthan

Sgt (Retd)

[Veterans India]

Rakesh Prasad Chaturvedi	12:30 PM (4 hours ago)

Dear Veteran Achuthan,

Reference your post in Veterans India  

I feel there is an urgent need to clarify- in fact dispel- your apprehension, perhaps shared by some others, that Officers, JCOs and OR are different categories who get different treatment at ECHS Polyclinics. 

This is NOT so.

Dealing with improvement of Pan India ECHS services voluntarily  I can state with emphasis that such differentiation does not exist. Officers have as many and similar problems as JCO/ OR. There is widespread discontentment with NA medicine, non Empanelment of hospitals and what has been discussed in the mail below- being made to run around.........for referrals, for tests etc. I am all but sure that a similar reaction would have emerged even if the patient was Officer/ JCO. Sadly some OC Polyclinics lack empathy.

I urge you to share this concept with others you come across who may be attributing reasons where none exist, and feeling victimized. This trend of class division has unfortunately been creeping in for past some recent years, and I would not be surprised if it is maliciously being injected by people opposed to Veteran interests. These efforts include insulting terminologies like PBOR. 

With Warm Regards,
Col RP Chaturvedi,
A-35, Sector 36, 
Noida 201303.
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