Had been quite a
while since I logged in and wrote something on my journal, My attention was
briefly occupied for a few days taking care of my mom who was sent on the
hospital for apparently suffering from chronic kidney disease. This wacked of
ride lasted for more than a week as mom got hospitalized and confined over it.
Initially the doctors though that mom had to be strapped and hooked up to the
dialysis machine just to save her life, fortunately further lab results test
showed that will not be the case although it was obvious that mom had indeed
had problems related on the kidneys.
My younger sister
was definitely and no doubt a big help in getting mom out of the hospital, and
took care of everything even the financial aspect and some medical decisions to
be made. If it were not for my sister then mom could still have been stuck up
to now on the hospital and I'm still left figuring out what to do next.
I would also like to thank "Uncle
Panong" (Mom's cousin) whom helped
us voluntarily and given us some tactical decisions overall , especially in the
hospital expenses where it ballooned to about 6800 PHP for the medical ward. He
helped us in going through the social services and reducing the medical bills
to almost zero. Frankly I never pay attention much to "Uncle Panong"
until now and I do thank him a lot for helping us.
Anyway in other news
So how is the
government hospital overall? To be quite honest , I don’t want to go the
hospital if ever I get hospitalized. Being hospitalized in a government
hospital in the Philippines is one of the worst things a person could ever imagine in health care .
The doctors and
medical staff are rude and ill mannered , I even saw one doctor shouting to her
patient who is in near death at that time, plus doctors even avoid treating
their patients and letting them rot in the hospital bed. Another thing is the
facilities which looked more like a backwater motel rather than a full fledge
hospital , the so called "Charity" ward isn't exactly free and cost
as near to that of a "Pay" Private ward and the so called charity
ward has no electricity at all to start with and no proper ventilation. Nurses
most of the time forget to adhere to medications that are to be given to their
patients like insulin and such, and even in some cases are rude to their
patients and the patients relatives. And
another thing is that they even make it mandatory for the patients to buy and
shoulder the cost of medical equipment that was intended to be free and a
standard issue, I have no idea why patients have to buy their own dextrose,
syringe, needles, glucose strips, plastic tubes and such etc.
To be honest I cant
recommend at all a government hospital for healthcare. The only reason that
people come there is the misconception that it was supposedly free . Little do
the helpless patients knowledge that if they would compare their medical bill to
that of a private hospital care it would cost as much as the same and with less
worries.
