Sarkis Sargsyan (back) stands at the Klinik rechts der Isar, in Munich, with his wife and brother: Like the Sargsyans, hundreds of thousands of people receive treatment in a foreign country every year. This medical tourism earns German hospitals and doctors roughly €1 billion ($1.35 billion) in annual revenues. In 2011, 82,854 foreign patients were treated in Germany on an inpatient basis and about 123,000 on an outpatient basis.
the market size is USD 24-40 billion, based on approximately eight million cross-border patients worldwide spending an average of USD 3,000-5,000 per visit, including all medically-related costs, cross-border and local transport, inpatient stay and accommodations. We estimate some 900,000 Americans will travel outside the US for medical care this year (2013).”
India is a major destination for Medical Tourism, mainly because of the quality of Doctors ad Treatment and of course, cost.
The cost is low because of the weak rupee against the Dollar and when compared to the cost of treatment in the US, India is cheaper cost-wise.
For the other third world countries the quality of treatment is better .
However even this low-cost Medical Treatment is because of the greedy Corporate Hospitals and some greedy medical professionals and medical Test Centers.
The Doctors prescribe a host of tests not warranted because they get a standard 15% of the cost of the tests.
Surgery cost depends on your purse and is determined whether you are covered under Medical insurance, have a credit and your financial standing.
Please read my posts filed under health on this subject.
In Medical Tourism the touts come into operation.
All Corporate Multi-Specialty Hospitals have Agents posted abroad like Dubai.
They literally trap patients.
What they are promised as treatment cost is a fraction of what the patient is ultimately charged .
The patient can not protest as the treatment is complete and he/ she will not be discharged unless the Bill is settled.
Added to this is the illegal practice of the Hospitals’s practice of collecting the patient’s passport, which will not be returned unless the Bill is settled in full.
If some one complains about the Passport, it will be conveniently lost, the Hospitals do not issue receipts for the passports.
But the racket in medical Tourism in the world is ramapant and criminal.
Sargsyan, his wife and brother landed in Munich on Sept. 16, 2012. They had already paid €3,500 to the IMZ agency as an advance for the treatment and visas, the Sargsyans say.
According to their account, soon after their arrival, they went to the IMZ broker’s office at the Sheraton München Arabellapark Hotel.
There, they allege they were greeted by a man in a suit, Arsen B., whose business card listed an exotic combination of titles: “Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. med., neurosurgeon – orthopedics, Director – Senior Physician.” B. allegedly promised to make the necessary arrangements for Sargsyan with a network of private clinics and doctors’ offices. The family felt like they had met their knight in shining armor.
However, IMZ disputes this account, saying that Arsen B. was abroad on this date and that it does not have an office at this location.
Sargsyan is sitting in a furnished, two-room apartment in northern Munich as he describes his first few days in Germany. He has just returned from radiation treatment, and the blue mask is lying in his lap.
He was a karate fighter and strong as lightning, says his wife, Nelly, a petite, friendly woman. The couple has been married for 21 years. Nelly’s description of her husband is a far cry from the person sitting on the sofa. He has dark bags under his eyes, and he looks depressed and exhausted. It’s hard to imagine that this man has ever laughed.
Sargsyan talks about how the first appointment took him to the Arabella Clinic, where another colonoscopy was performed. The diagnosis described “a coarse tumor that is not passable.” A tissue sample revealed that the tumor was malignant. Doctors also found metastases in Sargsyan’s liver and lungs. An interpreter with the agency translated for the patient. “The news was bad,” says Sargsyan, “but I trusted the doctors.” He also trusted Arsen B., who seemed to have a plan for everything.
To prevent intestinal obstruction, Sargsyan was given a colostomy. Local doctors performed the first cycle of chemotherapy, followed by radiation therapy. The brother handled financial matters, paying €10,000 to the IMZ office for the initial treatment. Because he paid with a credit card, he was also charged a 5 percent surcharge. “Thank you for your confidence,” the customer receipts read.
Online shopping is becoming increasingly popular due to its ease, rapidity and cost-effectiveness. That is the reason why companies offer their products online in their e-shops to customers all over the world, that is why retailing corporations like Amazon.com were born and sell goods produced by others and that is why websites with free classified ads like Sahipasand.com are used to sell or resell any kind of products.
Consumers can now purchase any number of goods and services online and are doing so with progressive frequency. Of course there is a significant number of risks associated with this new craze, from simple technical issues and poor customer service to more serious cases of phishing and identity theft.
Following the tips listed below and maintaining a certain degree of common sense will allow you to shop online safely:
One way of ensuring your online safety is to shop exclusively on secure websites that encrypt the information you send in order to protect it from hackers. You can check if a website is a secure one in a number of ways. First of all, look for a locked padlock at the bottom of your computer screen and/or an unbroken key. If the padlock is open or the key is broken, the site may not be secure. Look also at the web address: if an ‘s’ is displayed after the ‘http’ (so you see https://), the site should be secure.
Always read the small print
Always familiarize yourself with an online retailer’s small print before placing an order. All reputable online merchants will provide customers with a Privacy Policy detailing how information is stored, used and shared with third parties. Furthermore, make sure you familiarize yourself with merchant’s shipping, cancellation and returns policies to avoid all nasty surprises later on.
Be aware of cookies
Cookies are a tracking system that monitors the sites we use while we browse online. Online retailers often use cookies in order to facilitate the ordering process, however they are also used as a marketing tool, bombarding us with targeted advertisements relevant to the sites we have visited in the past. Though this is often benign, it can be potentially damaging.
Keep your information private
Since you will be required to enter a lot of personal information when placing an order, make sure you are selective about any additional information you enter. Many questions online retailers ask are not compulsory and are only included for marketing purposes. If you value your privacy, enter only the minimum information required.
Look out for phishing
Phishing is a phenomenon that encourages individuals to enter private information such as bank account and credit card details into a fake website that is accessed via an officially looking email from a bank, favorite online retailer or payment service provider. To avoid becoming a victim of phishing, do not respond to any requests to verify or update your details via email, and do not access websites via embedded links; always access the page directly by entering the address by yourself.
I came across an interesting article in Thrill List on how long the various Food items we keep are fit to consume, after the expiry date .
As far as I know Milk can not last for more than a day, unless it is boiled, boiled and kept in the Fridge.
Pocketed Milk, has to be maintained at 4 Degrees to prevent Bacterial Growth and any food reheated is unhealthy as bacteria forms.
However people of the day can not follow this and they seem to cook , in some households for two to three days and it is kept in the Fridge.
Cut vegetables, kept in the Fridge lose their Nutrients.
Anyway read the following information.
“Based on the tireless work of lead-bellied researchers at EatByDate.com, we compiled a handy infographic (see it all big and stuff right here!) displaying just how long foods like pizza, salsa, and even beer will last safely in your fridgeafter the printed date.”
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Information on Food in Refrigerator.
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I have quite a few posts on the dangers posed by Co ca Cola to Health.
Coco Cola.I love Coke commericals? I can’t help it, I do. I’m not a Coca Cola drinker myself, as I gave up dark colas, despite my love for them due to my teeth being so senstivie. But when it comes to commercials, Coke has always brought a smile to my face.sourchttp://rantsnrascals.com/2013/06/coca-cola-more-than-just-a-soft-drink/e.
Here I am proving information on the Cases involving Coca Cola throughout the World and the way Coca Cola is trying to discredit Center for Science and Management ,India.
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Lawsuits were filed in the United States in 2001 and 2006 by the United Steelworkers of America and the International Labor Rights Fund on behalf of SINALTRAINAL, several of its members who were falsely imprisoned and the survivors of Isidro Gil and Adolfo de Jesus Munera, two of its murdered officers. The lawsuits charged Coca-Cola bottlers “contracted with or otherwise directed paramilitary security forces that utilized extreme violence and murdered, tortured, unlawfully detained or otherwise silenced trade union leaders.” The lawsuits and campaign were developed to force Coca-Cola to once and for all end further bloodshed, compensate victims and provide safe working conditions.
The Campaign called for the main judge, Joseph E. Martinez, who presided over the original lawsuits against The Coca-Cola Co. and its Colombian bottlers in Federal District Court in Miami, Florida, to recuse himself because of serious conflicts of interest and statements he made about the case. (Read “Talking Points” 3 on Martinez)
Coca-Cola, which is virulently anti-union, claims that any allegations that its bottlers in Colombia are involved in the systematic intimidation, kidnapping, torture, and murder of union leaders are false. Yet the company has fought every effort to have an independent investigation into these allegations while at the same time has misled the public and its own shareholders with a long string of lies and bogus investigations. (Read “Talking Points” 4 on bogus investigations)
On February 25, 2010, another human rights abuse lawsuit against Coca-Cola was filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York and later moved to federal district court. “This case involves a campaign of violence – including rape, murder, and attempted murder – against trade unionists and their families at the behest of the management of Coca-Cola bottling and processing plants in Guatemala.”
It should be noted what happened in the ’70s and ’80s in Guatemala City: According to “Soft Drink, Hard Labor” published by the Latin America Bureau (UK) in 1987, “For nine years the 450 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City fought a battle for their jobs, their trade union and their lives. Three times they occupied the plant — on the last occasion for 13 months. Three General Secretaries of their union were murdered and five other workers killed. Four more were kidnapped and have disappeared. Against all the odds they survived.”
In Turkey, in 2005, 105 workers at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Istanbul joined a union and were terminated. They organized a lengthy sit-down strike in front of the main offices of Coca-Cola in Turkey. After several weeks of protesting, Coca-Cola workers entered the building to demand their reinstatement. While leaders of the workers were meeting with senior management for the company, the company ordered Turkish riot police to attack the workers who were by all accounts peacefully assembled, many with their spouses and children. Nearly two hundred of them were beaten badly and many required hospitalization. Lawsuits are pending.
In China: Based on undercover investigations at several Coke plants, Chinese press reported in December 2008 that Coke employees are “involved in the most dangerous, intense and tiresome labor, work the longest hours, but receive the lowest wages and face arrears and even cutbacks in their pay.” One investigator claimed that Coke violated Chinese labor laws and reported that workers “often worked 12 hours per day for an entire month without a single day off.”
In a report, “Violence in Coca-Cola’s Labor Subcontracting System in China,” it was revealed:
“On the 12 August 2009, a labor dispatch company hired by Coca-Cola’s designated Hangzhou-based bottling plant was discovered to have threatened two university student-workers who asked for their own and their two other fellow workers’ back pay upon their resignation. Xiao Liang, 24, was beaten up by two managers at the labor dispatch company’s office, resulting in serious wounds over his left eye, left hand, and right ear. Xiao Xu sent Xiao Liang to the Dongfang Hospital immediately after police arrived on the scene. Xiao Liang was later diagnosed with a ruptured eardrum, resulting in compromised hearing capacity…”
Two years earlier, BBC News (5/21/07) reported that Coca-Cola has been accused of benefiting from prison labor in China.
Mexico, the country with the highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola, is a huge profit center for Coke to the detriment of the health of millions of children and adults who suffer an inordinate rate of obesity, diabetes and other serious maladies. Dr. Ann Lopez, author and environmental science Professor, Ph.D. at San Jose City College in California, and Director of the Center for Farmworker Families states:
“The people of west central Mexico are easy corporate prey for predator Coke. You can’t stand anywhere in some of the rural towns and not see a Coke ad. I’ve seen what Coke is doing in the west central Mexico countryside where I do research: pushing their addictive products on peasant populations who can ill afford them and in which one in 10 may have undiagnosed diabetes.”
To control the soft drinks market in Mexico, Coca-Cola has shown repeatedly it will break the law. The Angel Alvarado Agüero case, currently in the Mexican courts, describes how this former marketing executive of Coca-Cola was unjustifiably dismissed when he refused to carry out illegal monopolistic marketing practices as directed by the Company. This case also highlights how The Coca-Cola Co. is cheating Mexican workers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in profit sharing and other benefits and shortchanging the Mexican government out of millions of dollars in tax revenues.
Investigative reporter Beverly Bell pointed out that “…more than 12 million people do not have access to potable water in Mexico.” She explains how then-Mexican President Vicente Fox, who prior to his election in 2000 was president of Coca-Cola in Mexico and Latin America, “…with help from the World Bank-has successfully pursued water privatization, as well as a massive land privatization program, that allowed companies free access to all the resources on the land, including water.”
Bell wrote in 2006, “Since 2000 [while Fox was president], Coca-Cola has negotiated 27 water concessions from the Mexican government. Nineteen of the concessions are for the extraction of water from aquifers and from 15 different rivers, some of which belong to indigenous peoples. Eight concessions are for the right of Coke to dump its industrial waste into public waters.”
In addition to abuse of workers, Coke has been involved in the exploitation of children by benefiting from hazardous child labor in sugar cane fields in El Salvador. This was first documented by Human Rights Watch in 2004 and in footage taken in 2007 for a nationally-televised British documentary and highlighted in Mark Thomas’s book “Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca-Cola,” published in 2009 in the U.S.
Representatives of the International Labor Organization interviewed company representatives at Colombian Coca-Cola bottling plants in 2008 to ascertain whether they exercised any control of suppliers of raw materials (such as sugar) to ensure that they did not use child labor. The manager at the Coke plant in Cali said that their suppliers should not use child labor, but added “that the enterprise [Coca-Cola] did not yet exercise oversight over this issue.”
Of the 200 countries where Coca-Cola is sold, India reportedly has the fastest-growing market, but the adverse environmental impacts of its operations there have subjected The Coca-Cola Co. and its local bottlers to a firestorm of criticism and protest. There has been a growing outcry against Coca-Cola’s production practices throughout India, which are draining out vast amounts of public groundwater and turning farming communities into virtual deserts. Suicide rates among Indian farmers whose livelihoods are being destroyed are growing at an alarming rate. Every day for years there has been some form of protest, from large demonstrations to small vigils, against Coca-Cola’s abuses in India.
One target of protest has been the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Plachimada, Kerala, which has remained shut down since March 2004 as a result of the community-led campaign in Plachimada challenging Coca-Cola’s abuse of water resources.
Campaign Supporters Outside
Coca-Cola’s New York City Offices.
The International Environmental Law Research Centre issued a report in 2007 that stated, in part, “The deterioration of groundwater in quality and quantity and the consequential public health problems and the destruction of the agricultural economy are the main problems identified in Plachimada. The activity of The Coca Cola Company has caused or contributed a great deal to these problems…The availability of good quality water for drinking purposes and agriculture has been affected dangerously due to the activity of the Company. Apart from that, the Company had also polluted the agricultural lands by depositing the hazardous wastes. All these points to the gross violation of the basic human rights, that is, the right to life, right to livelihood and the violation of the pollution control laws.”
In 2009, the government of Kerala set up the High Power Committee to Assess the Extent of Damages Caused by the Coca-Cola Plant at Plachimada, India, which “recommended that Coca-Cola be held liable for Indian Rupees 216 crore (US$ 48 million) for damages caused as a result of the company’s bottling operations in Plachimada.”
Just exactly how Corporations treat people, especially those in the third world. In this feature length documentary, directors German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia present a searing indictment of the Coca-Cola empire and its alleged kidnapping, torture and murder of union leaders trying to improve working conditions in Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey.
The filmmakers follow labor rights lawyers Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth and an activist for the Stop Killer-Coke! campaign, Ray Rogers, as they attempt to hold the giant U.S. multinational beverage company accountable in this legal and human rights battle.
Many union leaders at Coca-Cola’s Colombian bottling plants have been murdered. Hundreds of other Coke workers have been tortured, kidnapped and/or illegally detained by violent paramilitaries, often working closely with plant managements.
Lease deed of the premises , containing the name of the person in whose name the name is registered.To be safe, always ensure that the name of the person in whose name the Gas connection is obtained is included in the rental agreement.
In case of Own Home, get a copy of the Flat allocation letter from the builder/House tax receipt/copy of the sale deed/construction agreement.
It is better to get your Aadhaar Linked to your Bank and Gas account.
For the entire process, you have to fill out a form.
Ensure that your details are uploaded in the system at the office, get new Gas Voucher in lieu of the old one you surrender.
You can book from the next day.
Transferred to another city.
Follow the same steps, but have to surrender the Cylinders and the Regulator.
I”n case you are shifting your residence, you may follow either of the following options :-
Within the same distributor’s area of operation —
Advise your distributor your new address with supporting proof of residence so that he effects the change in his records and your future supplies shall then be sent to your new place of residence.
Within the same town —
In case your present distributor does not service your new place of residence, you may approach your Indane distributor with your original Subscription Voucher (SV). The distributor shall prepare a transfer termination voucher (TTV) for the place of your new residence. You can then approach the nearest Indane Distributor serving your new place of residence along with proof of residence, TTV and DGCC booklet (Domestic gas consumer card) The distributor shall prepare a Transfer Subscription voucher (TSV) against your TTV and shall provide you a new consumer number. These details will be updated in your DGCC booklet, (Domestic gas consumer card) .
In this case of a shift of residence within the same town you are not required to surrender your equipment. Hence you need to carry your Indane domestic cylinder and pressure regulator to your new residence.
While getting transferred out of town —
In case you are transferred outside the town, you are required to surrender your Indane equipment viz. cylinder and pressure regulator to your Indane distributor. In such a case, you may approach your Indane distributor with your Subscription Voucher (SV) or Transfer Subscription Voucher (TSV) as the case may be & Domestic Gas Consumer Card (DGCC) along-with your Cylinder/s and Pressure Regulator. The distributor in turn will prepare a Termination Voucher (TV) in your name for your new place and refund the deposit held against the Cylinder/s and Regulator. You will also be guided to the nearest Indane distributor for future service. At the new place you can approach the nearest Indane distributor for resuming your Indane supplies.
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