Survival of the financially-fit?
Posted on November 23, 2009 - Filed Under Philippines |
Tuesday morning, I awoke to Arashi’s “Wish”, my ringtone. It was my mother, and her worried voice clearly made me brace for another alarming news: my cousin and close friend had been in (birth) labor for three days! She was admitted to a public hospital in Ormoc City. The doctor advised to perform a C-section but it was impossible to do it in the said hospital because the operating room equipments are broken! The only option left was to transfer her to a private hospital but they didn’t have enough money for the downpayment.
Imagine being in this dilemma. So sad, but it is a fact that many people die because most of the public hospitals in my country are in bad conditions. The best that these hospitals can offer are beds (without beddings!) and remedies to not-so-serious cases. I’m still searching for references on how the Philippine government allocate the national budget, and which sector is responsible for the maintenance of public hospitals. Could it be the local government or the Department of Health?
From this website, I found the national budget outline for 2010. So where will the P28.5 billion pesos of DOH go? How will the local sectors spend the P65.4 billion? Will the public hospitals have their share of new equipments?
Our country fights for the protection of women and children. But what happened to my cousin and I’m pretty sure, more Filipino women, it seems like all we do is lip service. I hope that it won’t remain like this forever. I hope that we will vote wisely and make the 2011 election the stepping stone to stop what has plagued our country for decades: the survival of the financially-fit.
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Did you know about the 1 million-peso (almost) dinner that they (gov’t officials) had in the US? Guess, you’d feel so sick that they hadn’t thought of better ways to spend the gov’t’s money. (although they didn’t admit to using the gov’t funds).
our crazy politicos will just eat that budget for their campaigns next year. . .