Thanking health care in my country.

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Good morning, friends. Today, while I was thinking about several health issues here and remembering what happened elsewhere, I thanked fervently for being here. I remembered when my granddaughter Carolina was doing a paper about health care in Chile years ago. Before I started to answer, Leticia who was at my side, started to tell her that it was horrible. I then asked her where did she have her children. At the hospital, of course, she answered. And how much did you pay? Nothing. She is a chronic patient and as she belongs to the more vulnerable part of society, the health service does not believe that she will go to the hospital (free) when needed. So they send a social worker for her. During the pandemia, the government knew exactly how many beds were in the country´s hospitals (public and private). They were converted into beds for covid patients. If there was a patient in one city and a n empty bed in another, our airforce took the patient to the bed for free. And while it is true that there are long waiting lists for ailments that can wait, when there is real urgency the patient receives immediate care. A couple of years ago my friend Lili´s daughter had to come from Canada where she lives to Chile to have a difficult surgery. In Canada, doctors were treating her with Ibuprofen. There are lots of stories. When my father was dying with cancer, the doctors who loved him as they had been their students called other doctors in the US and England to see if they could do better there. The answer was that health here was as good as the one in any of the top countries. How is health in your country?