thats why you should have travel insurance, and never go without any
if i remember , there is no 'free' state care, only thing you wouldn't have to pay for is the nurse and doctors time. you would have to pay for everything else drugs, bandages etc..
Originally Posted by joebloggs
thats why you should have travel insurance, and never go without any
if i remember , there is no 'free' state care, only thing you wouldn't have to pay for is the nurse and doctors time. you would have to pay for everything else drugs, bandages etc..
Agreed on the insurance, I was really thinking about the people who live there, not visitors.
There are public hopsitals, but patients still pay for just about everything, many cannot afford this and there are numerous charity/church clinics with doctors/nurses working for free, in the provinces you will find weekly/monthly mobile very basic clinics. You are right if you can pay you can will have excellent care in private hospitals. Foriegners can usually afford the best provided they have invested in proper travel/living abroad health insurance schemes. In the Phils there are schemes to recover most hosptial costs which you pay monthly subscriptions to. When we finally retire back to Palawan one of the most important things which we need to ensure is that we are properly covered and that appropriate care is avialable at the local Adventist private hospital. One good feature of being in Puerto Princessa is that there are 3 to 4 one hr flights daily to Manila.
Live your life for a reason and don't worry be happy
if you don't know where you are going then any road will do!!
my misses is a doc from the phils, she can tell you of many sad stories of how babies, kids and adults have died becuase they or their families couldn't afford to pay for the medicine and treatment.. the nhs is one of a few things left this country has that we can be proud of
Have you tried to make an urgent appointment for the quack lately....?the nhs is one of a few things left this country has that we can be proud of
Vets dont come under the NHSHave you tried to make an urgent appointment for the quack lately....?
Vets dont come under the NHS
have you paid a vets bill lately ? i have £1,000Vets dont come under the NHS, and the vets incompetence to diagnose what was wrong with my dog could have killed her..
no dom, i'm lucky i've no need to go..
but my misses works for the NHS, and as a filipina i knows she works heroff, taking blood from nearly 100 patients in a few hours, in near 2 yrs, she has never taken a day off sick or never complains..
if you don't like the nhs go bupa and pay thru thefor treatment
Have you tried to make an urgent appointment for the quack lately....?
Is this a criticism? If it is then I have made two urgent appointments in the past 3 years and been seen by my GP within 3 hours on both occassions.Have you tried to make an urgent appointment for the quack lately....?
You must be one of the lucky ones, then.....
Postcode lottery...???
A couple of my elderly neighbours didn't get an appointment for 9 days....
They both had to go to A&E before the appoinments were due....
I believe that the Triage nurses didn't spend much time on them, but had them seen immediately.
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