Administrative corruption in oncology units of developing countries: Overview, its impact and possible methods to curb it

Corruption has penetrated everyday life of people living in developing world. Financial mismanagement in health sector has direct impact on lives of all the stakeholders. Irregularities in health-care are responsible for poorer outcome, increased complications, more disabilities, unattained health-outcome targets, inferior health status and lower quality of life (QoL). All the parties involved directly or indirectly in health-care delivery can abuse power for private gain. Literature has covered comprehensively about the corrupt practices involving individual health-care professionals (HCPs). Corruption of individuals cannot exist in the absence of corrupt bosses. However, corruption involving top bureaucratic echelons are rarely discussed in most of the published series. Policies, decisions and misdeeds of top bosses in medicine drastically affect health care system of the community. Hence, elaboration of administrative corruption of top officials becomes necessary. In the present paper, we have analyzed the existing corruption in public sector oncology centres in India and probable remedial measures to curb these mismanagement of higher officials of cancer institute of developing nations.