all of the west has been crying about indians stealing all of their jobs through call centres.....but something totally different and even bigger is already underway....this article was in www.timesonline.co.uk read on....
August 04, 2005
Surgery delay forces boy to look for help in India
By A Correspondent
A TEENAGER who was left housebound after an ice-skating injury is flying to India for surgery rather than waiting many months in Britain.
Elliot Knott, 14, was told he would have to wait 17 weeks for an appointment, then at least nine months for an operation. His mother was outraged at the waiting time and has paid £6,000 to fly her son to Delhi for treatment.
The schoolboy, who was captain of the west Dorset Warriors swimming team, is suffering from spondylolisthesis, a condition that developed after he injured his back. He can barely stand and has to be helped around his home near Dorchester.
The debilitating condition is caused when a vertebra slips out of line in the spinal column and presses on a nerve. Elliot, who was due to begin his GCSEs at the Thomas Hardy School, had to stop attending classes because of the pain.
In May his local hospital in Dorchester, which does not carry out the procedure, referred him to Southampton General Hospital.
His parents, who are both design engineers, considered private treatment but that would have cost £25,000. They discovered that the operation could be done in India for £4,700.
Elliot and his mother are flying to Delhi on Tuesday and will be there for 18 days. It is hoped that he will be back at school within weeks. “It’s mad really,” Mrs Knott said. “There are all these doctors who can’t get jobs in the NHS which is clearly in need of them.”
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Oh, it's understandable, considering that the NHS is overrun by managers and doctors have lost much of their autonomy. British health services are headed for disaster.
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