
NEW DELHI: India is failing its patients by treating hospital discharge as the end of the treatment, as they are thrown into an unstructured ecosystem of untrained caregivers and fragmented follow-ups, which leads to delayed recovery and frequent readmissions, experts said here, flagging the issue of “rehabilitation shortage”.
They highlighted this urgent mismatch and underscored that rehabilitation is not a luxury but the missing bridge between survival and healing.
In reality, recovery begins only after discharge, experts said at the IAPMR Mid-Term CME 2025 event hosted by the Indraprastha Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (Delhi chapter of IAPMR) at the SCOPE Convention on September 12 and 13.
Source: PTI News