Pay Ward or Stay in Charity Ward?

Philippines
June 9, 2012 6:17pm CST
Friends, i need your help. Relative to my best friend's confinement... Due to lack of funds, he was taken in a government hospital but under a charity ward. Due to bad complications, he was rushed in the ICU/ Observation Unit. I was encouraging his family to move him to a PayWard instead because his condition is very poor. Apart from that, being in a charity ward, gives you the least attention from specialists. He needed a neurologist now. However so, the visiting neurologist can only come around T-Th. My friend's case which started as osteomyelitis, then had pneumonia and now have brain strugges. The doctors are trying to rule him out in meningitis, cerebral infarct, viral encephalitis and even cancer! Oh myyyyyyyy!! Time is running out on my friend and he needs to be diagnosed really fast! I believe that he can have faster treatment if he be transferred to the PayWard. Unfortunately so, when i have inquired with the billing section of the hospital, they said that if a patient is moved from Charity Ward to Pay ward, all expenses would be retrorated at a PayWard and not on the day that he would be moved to a PayWard! What?????!!! I think thats unfair!!! As i am also trying to solicit money from friends to help the family financially, i have asked the billing section if they could at least provide a partial billing. Billing said that they dont give partial billings to Charity Ward! Whaaaaaaaaat???!!! You mean to say, you will just surprise a patient when he gets discharged? They said yes. Huh???!!! I asked them, dont you accept partial payment either???!!! They dont accept either! Whattttttttttt??!!!
2 responses
Austina
@Austina (92)
• Philippines
12 Jun 12
I think your friend must stay in a payward since the condition is serious and needs all the attention. When my son needs to be admitted, we chose to put him in a private room not in charity ward since we are also preventing him to acquire infections. We think about the expenses but my child's health is more important. Same with your friend. He needs to be in a payward. Just help one another to raise funds for hospital and medicine fees. Nowadays, most of the hospitals were really unfair. They are servicing the people for money and not for health. You should know the rules and regulations of the hospital so that your rights would not be ignored.
cher913
@cher913 (25781)
• Canada
10 Jun 12
i am thinking that it isn't that much different than the US. where i live in Canada, we have social medicine which means you can get a certain amount of basic care with a health card which is issued by the government. it is not free but paid for with our taxes.