dhedra - I think most private hospitals worldwide are very good - so not really a good comparison.
Unlike the UK most countries do not like to slaag their own systems even though they know them to be defficient and totally inadequate.
You only have to look at Indias attitude to refusing Aid when they are one of the only countries in the World that has Leprosy.
Most countires I have travelled to including Thailand and India do not provide adequate medical facilities for the general population whatever propagands they've been feeding you.