Hospitals

If I’ll have the list of the most hate place I’ve ever been in this earth, one of it would be the hospitals. Whether it is private or public I really hate it for a couple of reasons beyond my other senses. I know to myself that I am not afraid of death or dying that can somewhat be associated with hospitals but the aura it perceives to me is really bad and I feel like I need to cocoon myself with a highly safeguard protection in order to get rid of bacteria and viruses the hospital is greatly surrounded with.

I was convinced to write this entry because these past few days, I have been subjected for a minor operation and consultation in a hospital which is a public one and I became a watcher to my aunt on a private hospital for about two days. Telling and exposing the reality, there is a great and big difference the public and private hospital can offer to all the patients who I believe only wants to access the best of the health facilities for their fast recovery. Having a fair comparative analysis between a public and private hospital, our public hospitals here in the Philippines that is subsidize by the national government through the national funds allotted by the Department f Health is very poor. This is a sad fact of life that on a range of one (1) to ten (10) (one as the lowest and ten as the highest), we are on four point five (4.5) as per my judgment.

The driven force that really convinced me to write about this is when my grandfather was brought on an emergency case at the Philippine General Hospital or PGH which is a public hospital a year ago. After the emergency case and everything was by that time in good hands to transfer my grandfather on a room for recovery, my heart was in pain and melting upon witnessing directly with all the senses that triggers me to be sad and feel very sorry about all the patients and their relative who tirelessly watch over them. At that time, I feel I was in pandemonium. Allegorically, the place was a total dramatic scene of how we should be mad of our government and feel sorry for Juan Dela Cruz whose rights to an access for a greater range of health benefits was not suffice.

Imagine on a medium size room there were about 30 beds of patients with no ventilation together with their watchers who insist to put all their selves in one room just to recover the patient. Actually the room is not enough to accommodate OTHER patients so instead of insisting their selves on a sardines tin can like on that hellish room, others prefer to stay on the corridor and have the inclination that this place is much better just to end the day with a great relief and deep sighs both to the patient and of course to the relatives whom I bet you wanted to cry out loud because of the situation they are being subjected at that present time. My dear, please have the best of your wild imagination to work at this time to picture out the pandemonium place I am stating. I bet again with my two hands to be cut if you will not feel any affection and inclination towards all those patients.

Well, everybody don’t have the choice but to eat back their saliva going back their throat and face what is there already. Having a thought in mind, does our government do not know this entire situation or they just shut their mind off to confront these big problems? Thanks to the Creator that PGH has the crème de la crème of doctors who oversee all the patients and relentlessly provide the medical needs and assistance of everyone. Without them I assume that we have an unhealthy country and there is a vast pandemic outbreak of disease in the Philippines. No wonder that the PGH doctors and interns is of finest since most of them are from our best university in the Philippines which is University of the Philippines.

At this point, allow me to vehemently convey this to our government politicians, why don’t you confine your selves in a any public hospital at any point here in this archipelago just for one day without special treatment for you to know the present status of health level and concerns we have. Or why don’t you share just about a percent of your wealth which I brutally can tell that it comes from the pockets of every single Filipino people who passionately work hard for the benefit of their family in order to have a better society and nation as well to achieve a common good? Instead of foisting your selves as an actors and actresses every time there is a media, why don’t you try to go down our level on grassroots just to have a quick glance of the problems we have that should be immediately call for an action? Why don’t you? It is the perfect time for you to visit us again after the campaign period and made justification with all your sweet talks and flattery to us!

The gap of public from private hospitals is really big. On a note that yes, most of the people who went on a private hospital has the money to pay their bills and can really afford to rent an air conditioned room with television set, refrigerator and bathroom at their own convenience but can we not be so ambitious also to have all of this facilities and amenities if not the best but the better for every Filipino people? I may sound so eager beaver but I believe that AT LEAST we have that standard and level at reach if not of perks but of highly homogenize public hospitals also. The problem  I guess is with so much intelligent people in the politics who sometimes forgot that they are out of order especially with their English grammar (HAHAHA :D).

We belong to a developing country but our public hospitals are not developing. I wanted to become like Madonna as she portrays Evita Peron singing on a balcony but this time I’m gonna sing on Jose Rizal monument at Luneta with a higher scale of “Don’t Cry for Me Pilipinas” so that when somebody shot me with a sniper, I feel like a heroic figure to say all this elucidation and exegesis especially about their wrong English accent and grammar (Laughs :D).