I am still counting, 5 more days to go.What a shocking news! Our 690 million new hospital is being built to cater for 30% foreigners and most of them don't pay their bills.
Sooner, we should rename all our hospitals with a prefix 'charitable' hospitals.
Even right now, we are having some foreigners in our ward. One is a Myanmarese with dengue shock syndrome. He was intubated in the ICU for few days. Though he recovered from the initial episode, right now he is still fighting for nosocomial pneumonia.
Another one is a Bangladeshi admitted for typhoid fever and liver abscess. This Bangla, who doesn't understand a single word of BM, is so uncooperative today. He refused branula for IV antibiotics and even refused to have his blood taken.
Come to think of it, he should be damned lucky. Currently, he is being nursed in a single room, equipped with ceiling fan, air-conditioned and attached bathroom while our poor locals are being cramped into "refugees camp" outside.
He should be damned grateful, because, at the end of the day, his stay and treatment here are FOC, taking advantage of our weakness. According to our MOH's policy for communicable diseases, all patients with notifiable diseases are to be given treatment FOC irregardless of their nationalities.
Otherwise, these foreigner will never get enough to pay for the medical bills, even if they work ten years and eating grass.
I think our government has only two choices, perhaps consider collecting back the unpaid money from their countries' representatives, or start promoting our 'Health Tourism with Free Medical Treatment" world wide.
Sooner, we should rename all our hospitals with a prefix 'charitable' hospitals.
Even right now, we are having some foreigners in our ward. One is a Myanmarese with dengue shock syndrome. He was intubated in the ICU for few days. Though he recovered from the initial episode, right now he is still fighting for nosocomial pneumonia.
Another one is a Bangladeshi admitted for typhoid fever and liver abscess. This Bangla, who doesn't understand a single word of BM, is so uncooperative today. He refused branula for IV antibiotics and even refused to have his blood taken.
Come to think of it, he should be damned lucky. Currently, he is being nursed in a single room, equipped with ceiling fan, air-conditioned and attached bathroom while our poor locals are being cramped into "refugees camp" outside.
He should be damned grateful, because, at the end of the day, his stay and treatment here are FOC, taking advantage of our weakness. According to our MOH's policy for communicable diseases, all patients with notifiable diseases are to be given treatment FOC irregardless of their nationalities.
Otherwise, these foreigner will never get enough to pay for the medical bills, even if they work ten years and eating grass.
I think our government has only two choices, perhaps consider collecting back the unpaid money from their countries' representatives, or start promoting our 'Health Tourism with Free Medical Treatment" world wide.
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