“Public Hospital”

This article was made to clear our fret and query about Public Hospital. How does an individual think about public hospital? And how can we help to promote a healthy public hospital?

A hospital is the center of modern medicine. Traditionally, Nursing could be said to have its roots in the “HOME”. But as Technologies change, Nursing education changes and Nurses require increasing education to provide effective and safe nursing practice.

A Public hospital is a hospital which is shown by an argument for everyone and it receive government funding. It is not created for poor people- It is created for everyone. But WHY? Why every time public hospital is mention, people do have a lot of reactions, like: Yuck! Public Hospital! Nakakadiri ang Public Hospital! And etc. - Filipino Attitudes. This is because public hospitals are known for being overcrowded and dirty. They do have facilities but they sometimes may not have enough facilities for some medical emergency. Even there services are questionable and they are not as equipped as private hospital.

According to Jpma. Org.pk The reason for problems, related to public hospital, was six. Cut of six reasons, third reason “Lack of facilities and security of doctors” was marked true by 80% of doctors. Other reasons in a range of 30% to 60% are shown below

         Problems related to hospital:

-Lack of instructions for the patients to locate laboratory, opd’s wards in a hospital- 40%

- Insufficient lab facilities including working equipment in comparison to number of beds- 44%

-Lack of facilities and security of doctors- 80%

-Lack of supervision of doctors and staff members by higher authorities- 26%

-Late admission of patients in a ward or hospital due to limited number of beds-28%

- Inadequate measures for sterilization to prevent hospital acquired infection-58%

       Problems due to patients:

-Inferiority complex in patients due to poverty make them feel that they are not treated properly- 52%

-Non-compliance by the patient and family to follow Doctor’s advice- 56%

-Illiteracy and poverty of patients are factors that create problems for them in government hospital- 80%

These are some causes of major problems you encountered in public hospital.

Though a vast variety of problems we considered, two most significant drew full attention.

The third query of the questionnaire which was regarding facilities and security of doctor was marked true by almost 80%. This should be of course, be a main sector of concern for the higher authorities as no one can do their best until they feel adequately secured. Why? Why public hospitals don’t have enough facilities that in fact they have funds which is given by the government. Is it because of corruption or funds given by the government is not enough?

As a novice, I think this is because of corruption. Mercy! Money is evil! Money is powerful! Everyone can be evil if there is money but who would start to have change and who would start everything to be change?

We, the present generation! We need to start everything. We need to change everything. As Doctor Jose Rizal once said “Kabataan ang Pag-asa ng Bayan”

The last query dealing with illiteracy and poverty of patients gave a positive response by 80% doctors. Reflects that patient’s behavior with the doctors and to disregard doctor’s advice. Patients usually don’t observe the follow up probably owing to overload in government hospital. Sometimes after initial response and feeling better they ignore doctor’s advice's  So measures should definitely be taken to improve the understanding, the importance of follow ups and the doctor’s advice.

In total, the human and Environment have this mutual “openness”. The environment needs us and we also need the environment. But as people we are the one who should initiate to take care of environment so that we can have healthy environment and lifestyle. Everyone can do Nursing.Everyone is capable to be a nurse even if you are not professionally. But I’m encouraging everyone to be educated about Nursing.

Here some tips to have a healthy public hospital:

-We should understand the principles of cleaning and disinfecting environmental surfaces especially the members of the hospital.

- Infection transmission risk assessment to guide level of cleaning

-Cleaning practices for different types of care areas, including specialized cleaning assistant organism

- A public hospital should have cleaning strategies for spills of blood and body substances.

-They should also have cleaning practices for non critical equipment and furnishing

-Proper ladling of laundry and bedding

-They should have proper management of contaminated wash

-Staff, members, nurses, doctors and even the client, consumer or patient should have cleaning practices during and following completion of constructions projects.

I Hope each and everyone of us would contribute to take care of our environment. As citizens of the world, each of us is responsible for the health of our environment. Our choices and our actions contribute to the well being and deterioration of the environment. Anyone and everyone can participate in making our environment a safer, less harmful place.