really now, STOP PRIVATIZATION OF THE PHO!

Submitted by elpidio on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 6:31pm

copy from catanduanestribune.com

Letters to the Editor

Stop the privatization of the PHO!
February 18,2009

I was horrified after reading this paper’s banner story last week titled:" Operation of EBMC as for-profit hospital seen". It seems that some "business-minded" individuals are out to put another heavy burden on our kababayans.
Privatization: killing us softly.

In an "at a glance" take, privatization is a dictate of foreign lending and financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to creditors like our past and the present governments. Our bureaucrats, ever dependent on foreign debts to sustain their cling to power and their thirst for money, can do nothing but to follow the condition of these financial institutions in order to get more debts. These conditions are under the principle of globalization and free trade that seeks the removal of all national restrictions against foreign investments and the creditor-state’s abandonment of its social services program, deemed as a rival to loan payment, thus privatization is important to these crooks.

What is more alarming is the government’s aggressiveness to re model our health care delivery system into a corporate set-up setting.

Under the current government, the Health Sector Reform Agenda and Executive Order 102 diminished the role of the Philippine government in the provision of health care services. Consequently more than 38 public hospitals intend to privatize by 2010.Specialty hospitals like the Lung Center of the Philippines, the National Kidney and Transplant Institute and the Philippine Heart Center among others have in one way or another have been paved for "corporatization"The privatization of health care will deny affordable and accessible basic health services to the poor which currently comprise the majority of the Philippine population. Increasingly the government has decreased its budget allocation for government hospitals where the poor go. Terms like "financial autonomy" "fiscal discipline" and financial autonomy is nothing but euphemisms for commercialization of healthcare and subtle state abandonment on health and basic services!

But it doesn’t end there, under THE GOVERNMENT RATIONALIZATIONALIZATION PROGRAM or EO 366; there will also be imminent threat to the security of tenure of non-medical employees in the guise of "fiscal savings".

ABA-KA-TANDUANES

Catanduanes is a poor province, perhaps the poorest among all 6 provinces in the region. The state of people’s health is bad because of socio-political factors and frequent nature tantrums. Majority of our citizens rely mainly on agriculture as a source of living and in a latest study by the Asosasyon nin mga Parabandala sa Catanduanes, the poverty level has gone up, production ais low and the peso’s purchasing power decreased. In this situation, any increase in the price of health services is a huge stumbling block in the Catandunganons’ accessibility to health services. The provincial hospital formerly known as the EBMC is the only government-run tertiary hospital in the island, thus all the medical referrals are concentrated here. Thus, it is imperative that pur kababayans’ access would not be hampered by high costs, or else they would go nowhere.

Yes, we are ABA (poor), but we are not helpless or lethargic. I am appealing to everyone concerned to oppose this new plan that will allow government abandonment of its primordial role of delivering quality and affordable health services to its people. We must act swiftly before malnutrition, morbidity and high death rate plague our province tomorrow.

Lastly, let this be a warning to Joseph Cua and all the politicians out there. I generally don’t believe in the electoral process as a force for societal change as it was and still is a play ground of the elite, but just for once in the coming election, if this ill-conceived plan becomes real, the people must waste no time in snowballing a movement that will make sure that these politicians be thrown into the "kangkungan" of history.

Concerned Citizen

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Loans

Submitted by beatrice on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 12:07pm.

The government should stop the privatization of the PHO. It is an adversary of the loans program.

loans@beatrice

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Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 8:06pm.

...can you explain further how privatization of PHO is adversary to loans program?

no to privatization

Submitted by elpidio on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 1:30am.

NO TO PHO PRIVATIZATION

A PUBLIC TRASH

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Submitted by tingobosa on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 12:12pm.

Kung privatization ang pag-uurolayan ta digdi sa PHO/EBMC, ako pabor diyan.
Dakol na ang mga insidente na kan malipat sa LGU ang mga hospital, dai na nanggad nin tultol na serbisyo:

1) Sarong beses, igwa daang magamit nin oxygen ta malubha an kamogtakan nin pasyente, dai naka gamit ta dai daang approval ni gob o ni chief (lalo kan kasakitan kan oxygen). ito palan dai tinao ta an pasyente kontra partido o kaya dai man bistado sa alta-sociodad.

2) Kun dai ka nin bistado sa pharmacy maski igwang bulong, masabi magbakal sa luwas ta naubosan. pero sa mga bistado kan mga yaon sa botika igwang pigatao.

3) Maski emergency ang saimong pangangaipo o kaya agaw-buhay, ang mga doktor dyan o iba pang personahes garo umang o ulod kun maghiro-hiro, lalo an saindang tsismisan dai pwedeng mapatod.

4) Magpa clear ka man nin mga papeles o maghagad nin discount ta saro kang indigent, makiulay ka pa ki chief o mapa endorso ki gob tanganing an saimong hagad matawan nin pabor.

5) An ibang personahes dyan dai nagtatrabaho nin tultol ta dai daa nasweldohan. dai pa daa naaprubahan an budget ta dahil sa iriwal-politka sa SP.

...kun an ibang naobserbahan kong ini asin an "bureaucratic red tape" sa gobiyerno magbago na... maski dai na i-privitize ang hospital na ini.

...pero dai na pano uso ngonian an pinagsasabing "a public office is a public trust" an uso ngonian...
"A PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRASH"

ako habo ko mapribatisa!

Submitted by elpidio on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 6:29pm.

kung ang kubeta mo ga palpak ta barado ta su iba mong kaibahan sa halong dai ga pulot ning buhok sa drain, i pa bidding mo daw ang kubeta nyo tanganing igwa na lang ning mag operate kaini ala mall? mayad ka ta gwang pangbaya pan'o so mga dai?

kaawat nang panahon na piga talam nin mga apostol nin pribatisasyon na mayad sato na bako na gubyerno ang mag kapot nin mga industriya asin facilidad ta palpak daa mag patakbo ang gubyerno. pero naipabakal na halos gabos na public utilities nita hain na kita ngunian?

ang tubig ipinabakal na, ang kuryente piga pabakal na, pero anu nag barato ang mga ini? dai. ta s asimpleng pag heling pag prinibatisa ang mga basic services, nawawala ang " social consience" kaini asin matriumfir ang pag hahangad na mag kamal nin tubo, mala ta negosyo baga.

ang solusyon duman sa mga piga buri buri mo tol, iyo na lalong igiit niato ang mayad na sitema, asin na harion ang red tape. An mga problemang piga talam mo pan'o nag ugat an sa dekadenteng kultura nin patronage politics na dapat tang harion, bakong pribatisasyon ang solusyon jan.

Tama su nagsurat kaan sa tribune, sa salong probinsya na hasta ngunian dai pa ngani naka abot sa satisfactory ang health care delivery system, asin bako aksisible an serbisyong pankalusugan sa nakakdakul, uya na ining iskema na iprabitisa ang pinaka dakula tang ospital, the onli tertiary public hospital in the probins?

Napag adalan daw ang purchasing power nin mga tawo? ALAM TA MAN SANANG GRABE ANG PAGTIOS, pati serbisyong pang salud ipabakal pa?

Intonces, pag mangyare ining pribatisasyon, sain na mapabulong ang mga tawo? ki pay enting, ki nang ansay? kahilak ta man

sa pagka gilumduman ko, sadong parsurat yang nag sabi: yang matuninong na pampamng para sana sa mga tahong ikan kusog nin boot na mag lusong sa dagat (magpaguronggudong) sa panahon nin bagyo....