Public Hospital's Sanitation: A Major Problem

A public hospital or government hospital is a hospital which is owned by a government and receives funding from them.  The main goal and core dimension of quality in a public hospital is to promote health along with the patient’s safety and the hospital’s clinical effectiveness. In order to achieve such goals for the patient and the institute, we should take a look on the basic yet foundation of giving care; the Environment’s Sanitation.

When we take a look at the greater idea in terms of building a certain foundation, then it speaks for its importance. It is because when we elaborate a so-called foundation, a failed one would interpret succeeding failures. What I am trying to pinpoint is that if we set a goal of a hundred percent assurance of a certain person’s wellness, then we must be sure enough without doubt the environment is in its healthy status.

            

A public hospital in Egypt

Don’t you think that with such a very filthy and uncleaned hospital would be a perfect place for a person who is very ill and desires to recover? Would you risk staying in this kind of hospital which cannot even maintain their proper sanitation? Well, if I am to ask by this, I will surely answer a big NO!  Why would I choose to stay in a hospital that cannot even maintain cleanliness. How can I trust myself to an institution that cannot provide the basic need for my recovery.

A public hospital in India

            Improper waste disposal of public hospitals are also a dilemma they face. This infectious hospital waste are very dangerous to the health of the patients and the people in that hospital. The hospital should always sustain in their minds the proper waste disposal. Preserving such attitude of proper disposal may lessen the microorganisms and infectious substances to spread and cause disease to other people. 

As what Florence Nightingale has stated in her Environmental Theory, “Patients should be put in their best condition in order for nature to act upon them.” For the patients to be able to attain a faster recovery and maintain a healthy status as what our hospitals are promoting, they must be able to alter and uphold and sustain a safer and healthy environment and keep a proper sanitation of the hospital.

          

          At the end of the day, all we can blame with these problems that our public hospitals are facing, are the improper management of the people behind building our government hospitals. These problems are all rooted to the discipline of the society and governance of the government. But with proper ways, solutions, and attitude, we can overcome these dilemmas that our public hospital and community is facing.