How Big Finance Is Destroying India's Healthcare — an investigation into what happens when hospitals are run for returns rather than patients.
Over the past two decades, private capital has moved decisively into Indian healthcare. Hospital chains have been bought, consolidated, restructured and resold. Diagnostic networks have scaled at extraordinary speed. And the logic governing a great deal of Indian medicine has shifted — from care to yield.
In The Silent Syndicate, Ameer Shahul examines the financialisation of India's health system and asks what it has cost the people it was built to serve: the pricing, the incentives, the ownership structures, and the quiet transfer of medical decision-making from clinicians to balance sheets.
Urgent and closely argued, this is essential reading for anyone who has sat in an Indian hospital waiting room and wondered how the bill was calculated.
About the author
Ameer Shahul is a writer, former journalist and public policy professional. He is the author of Heavy Metal, the acclaimed investigation into the mercury contamination at the Hindustan Unilever thermometer factory in Kodaikanal — a book widely praised for its rigour and its reporting on corporate accountability in India.
Perfect for readers of
Josy Joseph, Harsh Mander, Rohini Nilekani, and readers of investigative non-fiction on Indian business, public health and policy.
