Hospitals in India should change their rules of documentation

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In India now there are lot of people old and young who are alone in this world and are fending for themselves. Many people stay alone and have to get hospitalized when they are sick. Now most hospitals in India, especially the private hospitals want some in the family to sign some bonds which a single person at times can't provide. I really don't understand when the person who is being treated is paying for his own treatment why should anyone sign any bond or document on his behalf. My elder son had a minor operation a last year. He had his insurance which would bear the hospital and surgery expenses. He signed the required documents before going to the OT, yet they wanted someone second person to sign a bond. Since I was not there he had to request one of his colleagues to do so, who did it but reluctantly. Isn't this ridiculous? If a person who is retired and is all in this world but has the money to look after himself/herself,how is that person going to find someone to sign such bullshit bonds which has no meaning? For if he dies in the hospital no one will come to claim his/her body. So will the hospital deny to treat him just because he has no family members? I think it's high time the government does something about this?