Working in a government hospital sure has its ups and downs. The people of the Philippines are lucky to have a hospital like PGH that makes the skyrocketing hospital bills a little more reachable. People all of the country flock to this hospital because they don’t have to pay for the rooms daily, and they don’t have to pay the doctors professional fees at all. All they need to pay for are the meds and the OR equipment (which, for some people are still pretty expensive, but goes there anyway). Unfortunately, this hospital is not like the other government hospitals in other countries which are completely free. People have no choice but to settle for this place because it’s the cheapest bill they will ever get. And because the funds of this hospital rely on government money, you can’t expect top notch care, as much as they say it is. We get donations from different associations and people, but once those equipment gives out, then we are in big trouble. This hospital hardly has money for maintenance.
And that’s where the problem pertaining to that written on the picture above comes in. I saw this message written on manila paper on one of the bulletin boards in the hospital. In English, it is translated as, “The heat because of the broken air conditioning in the operating room, makes the heads of the staff and doctors hot as well!”
I experienced assisting in OR’s in these non-air conditioned rooms. Most of the time the electric fan in the OR would be facing the head surgeon, which means I am stuck with the dead air. We can’t turn the fan on full power because it will mess with the surgical field. And so we end up with sweat beads on our forehead with the mission impossible hope that the sweat doesn’t contaminate the field. Oh man!!! I got lucky because the OR i am in lasted for less than 5 hours, but think of the 12 hour operations! It must be hell!
I really hope that they fix this problem because it’s not just for the the staff but for the patient to be operated on too.. There are just some parts of medicine that cannot be compromised.
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