Healthcare system

Hello fellow readers, today I will tell you a little about my opinion and experience with the health system.

My opinion about the health system in Chile is more directed to the area of public health, throughout my life I have had a diversity of experiences, but the vast majority are not good.

Public health doesn't have many doctors, because the vast majority of these only work in private health. Being a person with not so many resources means that we do not get the best care.

Having a shortage of doctors makes patient care very slow, making waiting times can reach more than 12 hours, just for care. Once I twisted my foot, I had to wait about 4 hours to be attended, because that hospital only had a one traumatologist and he was in surgery, my waiting time was relatively short and I realized this when talking to other patients, they told me that they had been waiting since 8 in the morning,  when it was already 4 in the afternoon.

Public health does not have the same means to treat people, so the result of an injury or discomfort, can look bad or not reach the true result, since being so collapsed of patients, they attend quickly and do not worry about looking for if what the patient has is something more serious.

The health system in Chile is very bad, there are very few doctors who really care about patients and I think it is something very serious, because as people we need to receive the best care even if it is public, or if not the bad practices of many doctors can lead us to have worse complications.

If we look at it on the side of operations, a person can wait years and even reach death waiting to be given an hour. Many will say that it is easier to pay, but when you are an old man who has no way to support himself that he is lower class, obviously his only option is to wait, because to pay for an operation they would be really in debt, because yes, the health system in Chile is very bad but it is also too expensive.

A simple medical consultation can cost you more than $ 30000 pesos, after this comes everything they ask you as remedies, more consultations, exams, among other things.

Should the government improve it? Obviously yes, since the population in Chile is composed mostly of people from the lower and middle class, by not worrying about the health of these people they will also lose something in the future. But also those who have to take a little consideration are the doctors, I do not include them all but those who work only for money, if they studied a career to save lives, Why don't they do that?

Thousands of people die because of the terrible health system we have, we must change and improve it, but we must also hope that the doctors who are trained in the future will really help and not work just because they will be paid well.

and what do you say? I'll be reading them.

Comentarios

  1. seba_escobar_flores29 de abril de 2022 a las 10:48

    Hi Nicole, I think that your testimony about the experience that you had to live in the hospital is very important to understand the reality of the Chilean health system. When my grandmother got cancer, I remember many times that she had to wait sitting on a plastic chair waiting to be seen for her chemotherapies, I mean hour sitting in that chair. How is it possible that in this country, elderly people with terrible diseases have to wait so long in these conditions?

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  2. Diego29 de abril de 2022 a las 13:32

    Hello, reading this made me realize how damn horrible the situation is in public hospitals. How can they be so cheeky? Honestly, the number of people who die waiting for care is disturbing, especially the elderly.

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  3. Sebastián Céspedes29 de abril de 2022 a las 16:57

    Hi Nicky! reading your blog, you put in evidence a problem that has the public health of our country, which is the lack of officials, and unfortunately that problem seems to have no solution, unless the future doctors who are trained in our country have the true vocation to work in the public system, or that there are policies by future governments to be distributed equitably doctors in existing health systems.

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  4. C_Monserrat Gutiérrez Bouyer29 de abril de 2022 a las 17:39

    Hello, I think the stories you tell are very real, it is possible to find many people who have had very bad times in the health system due to their absence, it is really sad to see certain situations in which even the dignity of people is compromised . The health system requires urgent change and it is difficult for it to improve to the point of being necessary in a short time.

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