the truth about the public hospitals

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We've been in the public hospital yesterday to conduct and get some information on how they run, how much their budget for a year, their facilities, manpower, etc. for our practice proposal. We are all surprise on what we see, smell, and hear when we are there. The City government is alloted only 1200000 pesos for the whole year since 1980's. Seventy to seventy five percent (70%-75%) of this is for the salaries of the employees and only thirty to twenty five percent (30%-25%) are for the medicine, facilities and equipment and the likes. They told us that in a day they will accommodate 250 to 300 patients including the out patients which means, the 30% of the budget is very much lacking because of the medicine that each patient is needed. The truth is, they can only cater 200 patients the most because they only have 200 beds and because their are lots of patient below poverty level, they must attain the needs of those people and not anymore thinking on where they will be put or placed. Mostly, instead of 1 bed per person, they will make it 3 persons per bed because of the lack of facilities. We also discovered that the only facilities they have is an x-ray scanner and sad thing is, they only got one working scanner and it is a none stop used because of the number of patients that they have per day. In case the patient need to be check using other equipment in which they have none, they will just endorse the patient to the other hospital(s). Their are lot more to say about this public hospital and most of them are negative. The only positive thing is that, the employees (Doctors, nurses, casuals, etc.) though they are all professionals, they didn't give up to work in that hospital in spite the fact that they can have a good work, good salary, and better environment, the choose to wrok there because as we interview them, they told us that " We do it for service and not for money." And I am proud of them.