NO TO PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS!
“If you ask the health department–because we had a dialogue–the DOH admitted that is the same – corporatization is actually privatization. Right now, there are some aspects that are already privatized. If you corporatize, that means wholesale privatization.”—Rep. Luz Ilagan, Gabriela Partylist
Ang privatization ay isang salot sa ating lipunan na madalas nagreresulta sa higit pang gastos at mas mababang serbisyo para sa konsyumer. Ang privatization sa mga ospital ay mas nagpopokus sa kita ng korporasyon kaysa sa mga taong pinagsisilbihan nito. Sa saklaw sa buong mundo, ang tao ay nagdurusa at ang ekonomiya paudlot-udlot dahil sa "kahusayan" ng privatization. Marahil ang pinakamalaking napatay ng privatization ay dahil sa pampublikong serbisyo at programa na hindi naman talaga gustong makatulong sa ating naghihirap na populasyon. Gusto lamang nito ng mas mataas na mga kita para sa isang bulok na serbisyo. Ang mga pribadong kompanya lamang ang makakatanggap ng benepisyo dito habang ang ekonomiya at ang mga mamamayan ay naghihikahos sa hirap. Dapat itigil ng gobyerno ang pagbibigay sa pribadong pamilihan ang mga responsibilidad na sila dapat ang gumaganap.
Paano na ang mahihirap? Meron pa rin bang lugar ang charity wards sa privatized government hospitals? Malinaw na hindi ang kasagutan dito. Ayon kay Rep. Teddy Casiño, ang charity wards ay mapapalitan ng pagtutustos sa mga PhilHealth card holders. Ang problema sa pagpupumilit ng gobyerno na palitan ang libreng government service ng PhilHealth coverage ay hindi lahat ng serbisyong pangkalusugan ay sakop ng PhilHealth.
Meron akong nabasa sa isang website na tungkol rin sa pagsasapribado ng pampublikong ospital.
"Contrary to the claim of the proponents, Corporatization of Public Hospitals is a “Disguised Privatization”:
a) Government’s abandonment of health as a basic social service to its people and transferring the responsibility of providing this and developing infrastructures to private corporation/entity;b) More investments of private entities in health will mean expensive health services. Health as public service becomes a commodity, a BUSINESS;
c) It violates the people’s right to free access to health care services, the right of public health workers to job security, just wages and benefits, as health services become a BUSINESS;
d) Expensive health services in GOCC Hospitals cause delays in treatment and death of patients; It will result to increase of maternal mortality rate, because poor women and underpaid health workers will not be able to access free health care services;
e) Corporatization is not the solution to the dismal health condition of the people; that people’s health depends on the government fulfillment of its mandate and responsibility to people’s health and welfare, that the state should allocate adequate budget allotment for public hospitals to ensure and improve facilities, equipment, supplies and medicines, stop user’s fee scheme in public hospitals and allocate funds for health workers benefit."
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