The Krypton Dilemma

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It is quite despicable that in 60 years since Independence, successive governments have criminally failed to provide even basic healthcare services to the masses. While almost 80% of India lives on less than $2/day (UNDP data), for the ‘rich’ rest, the private sector provides world-class healthcare solutions, coveted now even by foreigners... A sector update!

Krypton was where their son was born; the planet that his parents assumed would protect their newborn child, nurture him, and make him live a fulfilling life. Ironically, Krypton was the very planet that not only consumed all of its citizens in an explosive finale of self-destruction, but also forced the child’s parents to pack him off in a spaceship as a last ditch effort to save their only child, before dying themselves. The child escaped, and grew up in an alien planet – Earth, in this case. Ironically, it was here that he became Superman, an invincible hero with super powers, whose only nemesis remained Kryptonite, the remnants of his home planet, exposure to which could kill him instantaneously.

They say fiction mirrors reality more than one could believe. A billion plus Indians would stand evidence for the same, living a life worse than fiction on a daily basis, what with their own home country’s ‘Kryptonite-laden’ successive governments – who were supposed to protect them and nurture them to become global superheroes driving our economy to fantastic heights – providing a majority of them shameful and most dismal packages of healthcare services.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative