Persons seated in high posts enjoy luxurious medical treatments in private hospitals in India and abroad. When system cannot provide such luxury to normal citizens at public-cost, persons seated on high posts in legislature, judiciary or bureaucracy must not also have any such entitlement. Only privilege available to such privileged class should be to get priority treatment in private wards of government hospitals. Beginning can be made by banning medical treatment in foreign countries at public cost. Another option can be to provide Mediclaim policies for families to entitled ones with premium paid by concerned governments and public-authorities.
Medical-reimbursement at public-cost must be compulsorily put on respective public-authorities. There may be legislation in this regard because Supreme Court turned down CIC-verdict allowing disclosure of amounts of annual medical reimbursements claimed by individual judges of Supreme Court. Some MLAs have claimed medical-reimbursements in tunes of crores of rupees each.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL