India's doctor or primary care consultant gives patients two minutes only. It has been revealed by a research. This is revealed in the largest international research on medical consultation.

The situation is even worse in neighboring countries of Bangladesh and Pakistan, where consultation time is only 1.3 minutes from 48 seconds.

This research was published on Thursday in Medical Journal BMJ Open. In contrast, in countries like Sweden, America and Norway, the average time of consultation is 20 minutes.

This research was done by researchers from many hospitals in the United Kingdom.

It has been said in the journal, "It is a matter of concern that 18 countries where 50 per cent of the world's population live. The average consultation time here is 5 minutes or less.

According to the study, patients are spending more time on pharmacy or eating antibiotics and their relationships with their doctors are not as good.

Reduction of consultation time means that there is a big problem in the healthcare system. In the context of India, local experts say that these hospitals show crowd and a lack of primary care physicians. Primary care doctors are different from consultants who are trained in a particular branch of medicine.

Nobody was surprised by the fact that the consultation in India got two minutes. Health commentator Ravi Duggal says, "Everyone knows that doctors are able to give patients less time due to crowding in hospitals."

According to Dr Duggal, "There is no new thing that doctors get confused with the symptoms of patients."

In the private clinics and hospitals, this is also the case of the crowd. Here doctors only ask questions and can perform very little physical examination.

There is a difference in diseases in the Western and Indian consultations. Dr. Suhas of Maharashtra explains, "In Sweden, patients have a Psychosocial problem rather than viral fever. In the same India, if the doctor has information about any particular virus in the air, then they can easily treat many people." In the BMJ Open Study, the poor condition of health services of many countries was noticed.

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