Ethical dilution in any profession is painful but ethical dilution in medical profession is unexpectable: Vice President Dhankar at APICON 2024

New Delhi: The Vice-President, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar today expressed his disapproval of the commercialization  healthcare, stressing that equitable access and fairness, and not fiscal gains, must be the touchstone of healthcare.

Referring to India’s civilizational ethos of 5000 years, he said that health and education were always taken to be services to the society, giving back to the society, not earning out of it. “Now these two sectors are becoming Industries. I strongly recommend that we get back to our age old values that will do lot of good to our nation and to humanity,” he added.

Addressing the 79th Annual Conference of the Association of Physicians of India (APICON-2024) at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi today, VP observed that no profession is as elevated and glorified as medical profession, and called for the highest degree of ethical standards, ever highest next to a lawyer.

"Ethical dilution in any profession is painful but ethical dilution in medical profession is unacceptable. I commend all of you that our doctors, our nurses and compounders have exhibited the highest ethical standards even on global horizons. If there are some transgressions I leave it to your thoughtful process and you must visit them with exemplary consequences because when the vast majority of doctors, nurses and compounders are at the highest platinum level of ethical standards, We cannot allow the fair name of this profession to be tarnished, tainted by miniscule category who create this profession into commerce," he said