Dear all, I would differ from your opinions. India does certainly have one good health care infrastructure with excellent health care professionals, however, the infrastructure is heavily loaded.

The cancer treatment that we get is almost same as what you would get in US or other developed countries, however, we do not have access to experimental drugs due to government regulations.

Secondly, Doctors do not share too much details about disease, treatment, prognosis with the patients or caregiver due to the way people react here.

One of the reasons for bad outcome here is also due to Hospital and Doctor hopping that people tend to do here during course of treatment. If somebody comes and tells you here that their so-and-so got treated in xyz hospital, you would switch hospital and doctor. They also go for alternative medicines (read Ayurveda, Unani, Homeopathy etc).

I think we are still missing an organized guidance and counseling system in India. Hopefully that would change.