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You may have seen my post requesting prayer for wife and daughter of a couple of our workers. Well, I accompanied the one worker and his wife to the hospital, and here is our tale:<br /><br />We arrived at 3:30 in the afternoon to be scolded by the first nurse we saw. "You came to the wrong department, that is too serious for us!" I apologized, and asked her where we were to go, because we did not know. Her response, "just up the road."<br /><br />We went up the road to the surgical block, where she told us to go, and they sent us elsewhere. Rachael, the wife of the worker, ended up walking about a mile because of the runaround.<br /><br />We get to where we are supposed to be, and the nurse yells at us, "Where is your folder?" Then she points to an office, where we must purchase a folder that will contain all her records.<br /><br />Back to the nurse with the folder, and she tells us to sit down. We do, for about an hour before anyone comes to do anything. While we are sitting there, it gives a good time to look around at the dirt and body fluids on the floor, the beds with no sheets (you must bring your own sheets if you are going to the hospital), the guerneys in the hallway with people lying on them, there are 3 advanced AIDS patients in the wing.<br /><br />Anyway, an hour later they take pulse, BP, and temp. An hour later, a "doctor" (we later learn he is an intern comes, and he askes a few questions and leaves.<br /><br />Then some time later there are a few more questions, and she is taken to an exam room, and we are not allowed to go in. The intern goes in, and keeps coming out about every 10 minutes and talking to the other interns that are there, but he won't answer any of our questions.<br /><br />Finally, he comes out, comes over to us and tells us it is time for him to leave, he hopes we have a good evening, and he is gone. Will not talk to us other than to say the doctor will discuss things with us.<br /><br />Doctor comes over about 8:30 and tells us they are going to take a chest x-ray, blood, stool, and urine sample, and we must get some medication. You must pay for all of this before anything is done.<br /><br />Doctor leaves without telling us anything, and we start to get the meds and the tests. About this time I see a patient in the corner code (flatlined, died, however you want to say it). No one notices, or acts like it! I tell one of the nurses, but she doesn't seem to care, nor do anything.<br /><br />Got the tests finished at 9:30, and went to see the doctor, but she left for the night. Ended up leaving Rachael there in the hospital, with the dead guy in the corner!<br /><br />It certainly isn't the care that we expect in the US, and this was at a major TEACHING Hospital. This is what they are teaching.<br /><br />The next day my worker brought his wife home, with her records. No where on the records did they officially diagnos anything, and there treatment was off base, according to the test results (verified my fellings with several doctor friends I know, and they all agreed with me).<br /><br />So, we are treating Rachael in house - no more hospital visits for any of my workers! If you know any doctors that want to come on a medical mission, we have the place and room for them!
<br /><br />It would cause me to wonder, what would happen if you yourself needed emergency medical treatment in a place like that ?