Unscrupulous diagnostic centres

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Many diagnostic centres are playing with the helpless patients of the country. In most of the cases, they charge exorbitantly high fees. The main reason behind this is that they have to pay a large percentage of the money to a section of doctors who refer the patients to those diagnostic centres. Sometimes they recommend unnecessary tests for earning extra money. They refuse to see the test reports if those are done in any other diagnostic centre. It is commonly known that such doctors are paid 40% of the money charged for the tests from the patients. In a recent investigation, aired in a famous news channel, it was shown that a doctor earns taka 24 lakh only from the diagnostic centres a year. It is hard to believe that our health ministry is not paying any attention to the matter.