Shocking News: A Thousand Peso ($20.68) Per Hour
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (141906)
Philippines
April 5, 2021 8:46pm CST
I was browsing some news feedback on Facebook. I stumble upon a piece of news that a private hospital charged a covid patient Php 1,000 ($20.68) per hour. The worst part the patient is not admitted in a room but in an ER that is a tent adjacent to the hospital facility.
It is an issue that makes the Department of Health demanding an explanation about it. The patient is not there anymore and moved to another hospital.
Is that expensive to be admitted to a hospital at your place?
Do you think it is stealing the right of people to have good service and health care?
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@gamayngbaki (1601)
• Cebu, Philippines
6 Apr 21
I think this is true because my niece's mother in law who is still in ICU for over a month now because of COVID has a hospital bill of almost 2 million pesos and there bill is still growing.
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@gamayngbaki (1601)
• Cebu, Philippines
6 Apr 21
@Shavkat I hope that private hospital is not located here in Cebu Province. 
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@Shavkat (141906)
• Philippines
6 Apr 21
@gamayngbaki The private is in Paranaque.
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@rakski (156200)
• Philippines
6 Apr 21
That is true. There is a certain numbers of hours a patient can stay at the ER, after that and still no room available, the hospital will be charging an hourly fee for using the ER. This was explained to me when my son was at the ER and we are waiting for a room to be vacated a couple of years back.
I cannot understand why because who wants to stay at ER when the hospital cannot accommodate patients. Good thing there was available rooms for us after a few hours of waiting
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
6 Apr 21
Not shocking at all this time of pandemia. The government hospitals are full and the queues keep getting longer.
In a private hospital where my daughter works, the triages were installed in the parking space near the ER. The triages are equipped with all the necessary machines to give treatment to a patient.
The ER have receiving doctors and nurses complete with PPE and they wheel a cart and meet a patient for swab test et al. If found ill with CoViD-19, mandatory procedures are performed right there at the triage.
Why are you shocked? The triages are the next best thing to having none.
The government triages were installed on a street. Probably short-staffed because I see the lines going round the block.
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@db20747 (43419)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
6 Apr 21
This is a lot of money. If they have so many patients it's very difficult to take care of every patient and they go over budget. Sometimes they have to charge when they can but the fee shouldn't be so high. Without insurance this is the price. Unless it is a public hospital. Glad he is in another hospital. This is why we have to keep those numbers down
