In Unsafe Hands
Nurses with fake certificates from non- existent nursing schools, combined with the recent spate of revelations about sweepers and other unqualified staff administering injections and medicines, makes one extremely wary of hospitals (“Degrees of Guilt”, July 23). Our ailing economy will probably soon be able to kiss the medical tourism sector goodbye if such incidents continue. RIDHIMA KHANNA, Chandigarh When regulatory bodies in charge of critical professions can fall into the trap of corruption, bribery and lazy bureaucracy, what hope can those related to mere politics have in our nation? Such cases of neglect and greed have surely pushed our administrative officers to a new rock bottom. AYUSHEE BHARDWAJ, Jaipur