MEDICAL CRIMES in India & two recent films raising the crucial issue (MERSAL & KUTTRAM 23) - By Bobby Sing

The medical profession is no more a ‘noble profession’ - is the most debatable subject of the present times, when malpractices by hospitals and doctors form the news more than often and they both are repeatedly accused by families of the victim patients getting a huge support of the public as well as the opportunist media.

On the other hand, the ‘true to their profession’ doctors and medical institutions are feeling immense pressure, especially post the Supreme Court ruling bringing them under the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) giving more power to the patients or the consumers. No doubt the cost of treatment (in the private hospitals) has gone way out of the reach of the common man and the government hospitals are certainly struggling to deliver as per the expectations raised. Still considering everyone involved in the profession as corrupt or more interested in the rate of returns would not be right giving the deserving appreciation and support to the doctors and hospitals still serving the society maintaining the dignity and sacredness of their ‘noble profession’.

KUTTRAM 23 (Tamil/2017/Meaning ‘Crime 23’) – Based on the strange case of murders of three pregnant women, this is an investigating crime thriller making a shocking revelation over the process of pregnancy through artificial insemination undertaken by a reputed hospital of the town.