Dr V
I truly admired the presentors of the Leaders in Health program of AGSB - quite remarkable. They are MHO doing their best to provide with limited resources remarkable health care to their area of responsisbility. They are ingenious, remarkable, and admireable. I remember the name of one: Dra. Tolentino. I think the stand of the school on this one was clear, as was with the generic medicine law.
But everything seems to be forgotten. Eveything, all: procedures, medicine, hospital stay, diagnostics are expensive. Maybe we are partly to be blamed for emphasizing opportunity seizing.
Yesterday, somebody reported on Aravind hospital which expanded its capability of being the McDonald of Eye Operations. It has operated on millions of Indians, ar ridiculously low price - as low as five dollars (P220.00). 2/3 are priced this way, while l/3 pay the full price and subsidize the l/3.
If they can do it in India why cant we? If we can do missions for free, why not this one. I encouraged an opthalmologist to make a bp for this. But that is BP for academic requirements, for passing the course, not for nation building. Very few, or very rare can people do like Dr. V.
In Thailand under the universal health coverage, the Thais pay 2t bhat or about P3,000 per year. For every admission, private or govt hospital, the Thail pays only 30 bhats or equivalent of P45.00. If they can do it in Thailand, why cant we? Are we not more brilliant? (Judging from the show on CJ, our lawyers and senators are brilliant)
May be we are not just focused on the right things. We are pre occupied with politics and revenge and very negative at times.
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