Baby Dies After Private Hospital Refused To Accept Them For Having No Money
One of President Rodrigo Duterte’s biggest advocacies
mentioned in his SONA was to give Filipinos access to free or at least
affordable health care, is it justifiable for a hospital to decline a patient
due to not having any money, thereby leading to that patient’s death?
With this question, San Lorenzo Ruiz Hospital in Naic,
Cavite is currently under fire as a Netizen posted the heart-breaking photos of
her very young nephew lying dead in a coffin, apparently due to having been
declined by nurses from the emergency room of San Lorenzo Ruiz Hospital around
3:00 PM of August 27.
In a Facebook post of Eyah Ortsac, she detailed how the
child’s mother, who happens to be the OP’s sister, rushed the child to San Lorenzo
Ruiz Hospital to request for admission as her son had been experiencing severe
diarrhea and appeared to already be very dehydrated.
According to Eyah, a male nurse then approached her sister
and asked whether she had any money to pay for the hospitalization, to which
the worried mother said no.
A female nurse then looked at the child, the Netizen said,
and said something that the mother was already fully aware of that the child
was already very pale and was severely dehydrated.
The female nurse then instructed the mother to bring the
child to the nearest public hospital in Trece Martires, while giving the
panicked mother a referral note to the said hospital.
On the way to Trece, she noticed that the child was not
breathing anymore.
He did not manage to reach the public hospital alive.
Eyah Ostrac lamented the fact that the nurses from San
Lorenzo did not even try to apply first aid to the child before sending him and
his mother on their way, leading to the eventual death of her nephew.
She then called out to whoever those nurses were who had
been on duty at the emergency room of San Lorenzo Ruiz hospital at the time of
the incident, demanding to know whether they were justified in the way they
sent the patient away for having no initial money to pay for the hospital’s
services.
She said that she is hoping that this message will reach
them, imploring the said nurses to view all patients equally regardless if they
have money or not.
Understandably, this ignited a fiery response among Facebook
users across the country.
Here are some of them:
As of now, there is yet no update as to whether or not the
San Lorenzo Ruiz Hospital has reached out to the bereaved family.
Source: Pinoy Thinking
Baby Dies After Private Hospital Refused To Accept Them For Having No Money
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