The ethics of medical profession today has degenerated. Healing the patients with honesty, competency and compassionately has become a thing of the past. Maintaining professional values has become inevitable in the face of the changes taking place in the scientific, economic, legal and social environment wherein medicine is now being practiced, said Chief Minister K Rosaiah here on Saturday.
A major reason for the decline in medical professional values is the growing commercialization of healthcare, observed Rosaiah.
To survive in this new medical market, most non-profit medical institutions are also acting like their pro-profit competitors. Hence, the distinction between charitable medical service and professional service has become less and less apparent. This is really very unfortunate, remarked the CM.
The institutions which are functioning with commitement are becoming a rarity these days, Rosaiah lamented.
Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict upholding the State authority over the natural gas which will have a direct bearing on the Ambanis, Rosaiah urged the Centre to allocate a bigger share to the state while allocating gas from the KG basin.
Speaking to the media, the CM said Andhra Pradesh's stand had been vindicated with the apex court ruling that the Union Government was the owner of natural gas till it reached consumers and the government was competent to fix the price of natural gas.
The State had been asserting that it was the Centre which should have a say in allocation of natural gas and fixing of the price of natural gas, he said, adding no explorer could be allowed to take away gas indiscriminately.
Rosaiah was confident that the Centre, while regulating supply and distribution of gas, would give more share to the State.