Often we end up paying huge money for medicines which form an important part of the lives of aging parents. Every medicine is available in with the same formatulations but different generic names having different costs. E.g. painkillers are available at different rates from Paracatomol, Crocin, Anasin, Vicks Action 500, Combiflame, etc each having different prices. The same is true for each and every medicine available with the Chemists, for treatment from Diabetes, High and Low Blood pressures, etc.
Patient India is an effort to provide day-to-day information required by the common Indian patient to reduce cost of healthcare without compromising quality.
Prices of medicines do vary a lot from company to company. But those prices are not listed in a database readily accessible by the patients. Therefore, patients (especially chronic cases) cannot take advantage of these price differences. And, for doctors it is impossible to remember so many prices. It is the responsibility of the retailer to offer comparative prices. Final decision comes from the patients – whether to go for an expensive brand or the cheaper alternatives. On the PatientIndia.com website ‘Compare’ section the website has tried to give a massive database in a searchable manner. Patients are requested to go back to the doctor with options found in the database and ask whether any of those could be taken.
The patients cannot find the information in order to go to the right doctor in the very beginning. Main constraint for this is lack of proper directory services. It is so much important to find out the right doctor in the place where the patient is located at the required time. Same with hospitals, nursing homes and blood banks etc. Such information is available in the website’s ‘Find’ section.
Do visit www.patientindia.com for more information
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