Where is the money going?


In PGH Manila, there is a Charity wards for Patients who don't have the means to pay for treatment. 

After having to fall in line for hours (and this is seriously sick people we talking about), if they are so lucky and get their White card, then everything is paid for by Charity. 

I say lucky, because only 70 people per day get this, people sleep in the street outside to fall in line every day. 

The ward is a disgrace, the fans don't work and there is no aircon, every day it get as hot as hell itself inside the wards, the already sick people and their families who have no money, have to buy fans on the street of Manila in order to stay cool - in a Hospital funded by donations from wealthy benefactores and from the government.

Thats not the only problem, there are CR's for the patients and their "watchers(care givers or family members, where only 1 person is allowed)", in these CR's there are 3 toilets and 3 showers, most of the time only 1 toilet work and only 1 shower work - and this is for each ward with more than 30 patients + watchers.

The CR's have wall mounted water dispensers to flush the toilets, but they have been disconnected long time ago - So seriously sick patients have to go out of the toilet booths and get water to flush the toilets. 

The nurses are overworked and the doctors are often not available(for unknown reasons), the administration never visit the wards.

Medicine is also often not available, so patients watchers are given a prescription and sent out to buy outside the hospital(even for things that normally are O.C. (over the counter and don't need a prescription) - this is people who are already struggling economically and sleep on the floor in the wards while they care for the patients.

If they are in between being watchers they sleep on the street outside the hospital. 

For the patients, they have to bring their own bed sheets, as these are often not available. 

There are mosquitos, rats and cats all over the place - This is a Hospital where its suppose to be steril. 

Windows are wide open 24 hours a day because of the heat, and this is where the cats and rats get in, because there are no mosquito net on the windows. 

In the CR's, there are big trashcans which are emptied 1 time a day, where watcher empty diapers and left over food into. The flies and mosquito flies develop here and in the broken toilets. 

There are sinks where watchers can clean food trays, cups, glasses, plates and spoons. These sinks are very often clogged up so only one drain work, because maintainance don't think its a priority to clean them. 

There is maintainance, its just not very often they actually do something. When asked who they work for and who their supervisor is, you get a weak answer. 

This is Normal in PGH - which every year get millions of pesos in donations and money from the government - So I ask where is the money going, because its not going to the issues mentioned above? 

If a toilet is not working, the maintnance staff just put a lot of buckets on top of the toilet so it can't be used - instead of repairing it. The same goes for the showers.

You would think since its a Charity ward and everything is paid for, that these seriously sick patients would be treated with dignity as every human deserve, but NO, they are treated like 2nd degree humans by the Hospital, NOT the staff. I say the Hospital, because that is who is in charge of making sure everything is in order - MR. President and Director of the PGH, please read and act. 

A disgrace indeed!

I were in this hospital myself, as watcher for my Girlfriend, and I saw everything with my own eyes. And were horrified of what I withnessed there. 

This is how the government and PGH treat their own country men and women - its nothing more than a Money machine for the doctors and the administration! 












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