India, Jan. 5 -- India's medical institutions, once revered as sanctuaries of healing, are today rapidly degenerating into centres of unchecked commercial exploitation. What was meant to serve humanity has, in many cases, become a profit-driven enterprise, indifferent to human suffering.

The Hippocratic Oath, solemnly taken by every doctor, clearly states: "I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never to injure or wrong them." Yet, in today's healthcare ecosystem, this sacred pledge is being brazenly violated. Healing has been replaced by billing, and compassion by calculation. Medical colleges and hospitals increasingly function like corporate entities, where patients are viewed not as human bein...