Indians are ahead of us and most Europian countries as per the latest world bank releases..if we still consider India as a Third World Country, we will loose to them soon and Indian call centre jobs will be outsourced to US,UK and Canada.

We need to take this as an opportunity and work harder and get ahead in the race.

Cheers

I was in India for 9 weeks earlier this year.
IT IS MOST DEFINITELY THIRD WORLD.
The only field in which India is world leader is AIDS.
According to the WHO ,India is set to be the country with the most AIDS victims.
So take your own blood with you.

Sir/Madam:
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The UN and WHO say 100 things and provide more interpretations without making much sense. Anyhow they are paid to do them.

It is also a profitable business (NGOs, missionaries, etc.) to magnify India's poverty and so on and these days add AIDS to the list.

Most of the nations have the ills and problems similar to India and in many cases, they are swept below the carpet! Sometimes it depends upon who blows the trumpet hardest.
Regards,

Why do people forget that India has a population of over a billion. So the problems are not going to be solved overnite>If anyone thinks otherwise i think they need to go back to school.

Third world or not private health care in India today is very good. Many of top surgeons and doctors working in the major hospitals have been trained at the top centers in the world and have carried back their best practices to India.

Why does any discussion on some good aspects of countries like India or China immediately excite xenophobia and third world fears? Are we jealous of their successes.

They are doing what they are doing inspite of enormous difficulties they face not just the problems created by huge populations and crushing poverty but also due to the road blocks placed by developed countries like us who do not wish upstarts to join the high table.

Like the vultures that we are we take advantage of their good resources and criticize their drawbacks. It is a fact that most Indians can't afford the best treatment in the private hospitals of their own country.

We are taking advantage of their low costs, let's do it with dignity and not point fingers at what they lack. We lack health care when we need it. Let's try to set that right!

Health costs are so high in the US that we do this also. Some of us go to Mexico or South America though.

The reason health care is so high is not that doctors are earning outrageous salaries, but that hospitals are charging people who will pay for all the illegal aliens who receive health care and don't pay a bit. That is why one aspirin costs over 10 pounds! More people will flock to third world countries for surgery in the next decade until their hospitals are suffering from the same problem. Only concern with going to India is lack of follow-up. When things go wrong, they go very wrong...