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QUESTION: First jobs were outsourced from Britain to India. Next it was
healthcare, with hundreds of Britons travelling to leading hospitals
in Indian cities for surgical operations and other medical procedures.
Now another aspect of healthcare may be outsourced to India that of
looking after some of Britain's elderly or disabled.
The reason is the same costs are much lower in India.
"I'm looking for a suitable site to set up a home for the elderly in
Delhi or Noida," said Ajit Prasad, who owns five nursing homes in
Britain, three of them in high-end Surrey area. "My estimate is that
it would cost people around 700 pounds per month." Staying in a home
of a similar quality in Britiain would cost around 1600 pounds.
The financial aspect is crucial for the elderly since incomes
invariably fall after retirement, while living costs keep rising.
"More and more Indians in Britain, after their retirement, are opting
to return to their roots," said Dr Shiv Pande, formerly treasurer of
the General Medical Council. "Such an arrangement, by which they can
live in India, would certainly appeal to them."
Dr Pande said he knew of at least half a dozen elderly people who have
gone back to India to stay in Haridwar or Nasik. "They are living on
their own and will need more care as they grow older. They wish
British owned old age homes of a decent standard would come up in
India."
A local daily recently narrated the story of Steve Herzfeld, an
American, who has been supporting his aged parents, who live in an old
age home, for the past three years. He was finding his resources
increasingly strained, and has now decided to relocate them to India.
The burgeoning pension bill, as more and more Britons live longer and
longer, has led to serious thinking about allocating their care to old
age homes in India. Only 30 per cent of the local authorities fund is
available for the care of people without life-threatening or critical
diseases.
ANSWER: Outsourcing and insourcing are two different
jargons occupy in 20th century.The source is important
to find out the resource. Whether it is Briton or
America the developed nations as they called earlier
now turns out to be developing elsewhere. And India
and the Indians are tolerating as human beings. But
India will be facing the law of diminishing returns.
It is the global phenomena where the vacuum
is possible the developing nations will penetrate.
We have a great heart to accommodate anything and
everything.
This can be compared to the Indian cities growing
hapasardly without any infrastructure and God alone
save this country of Humaneness. But again which God?
How to guard yourslef should be thinking of
individuals today and in the days to come.
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