Indian healthcare really lacks in emergency care. Most of it is because there's no such thing as paramedics in India. Just untrained staff sitting in the ambulance. The insurance in India sucks too - true health insurance doesn't exist in India. It's just hospital-stay insurance and a lot of policies don't cover modern procedures.From what I have heard so far........Indian healthcare seems better than first-world healthcare? Provided you aren't poor, of course. A middle-class person would have better healthcare access than a middle-class man or even a rich person in a first-world country.
Look at the Salman Rushdie incident that happened recently. He was airlifted within 5 minutes. Had that happened in India, he'd be gone - RIP.
Access to healthcare for chronic issues and for most surgical procedures is alright though. Probably better than Canada in that respect. This won't happen to you in India if you're middle class:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/injured-teen-bounced-between-seven-hospitals-1.6355356
Canada does have far better emegency care and outcomes, most of the time.
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