Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Consumer protection? Copyright? Patient safety? Never heard.

I don't mind that all movies and music sold in this country are pirates. I don't mind ordering Coca Cola in the most expensive restaurant and get an already opened bottle of so-called Coke, which actually is flat AlbiCola... Or buying a liquid detergent for washing clothes and it turns out to be almost water, in color and otherwise. But when it comes to products for babies – I get mad. I heard the other day that my local acquaintance's seven months old son was in really bad condition and was in a hospital, parents fearing of losing him. Why? They had fed him milk for babies.

Don't trust the best before or use before-dates. Not only shops sell old stuff but the dates may even be changed.

Don't get to a condition that you need a doctor if you don't want to give bribes. Or, at least don't get so bad that you need to go to hospital. If you do, bring your own clean sheets. And use a toilet before going there, unless you are a masochist and want to use a toilet with pee, shit, puke and blood everywhere. Well, at least there shouldn't be worry of getting nosocomial infection. Though of course you can get other nasty diseases just from going there.

I need to believe that some doctors are still good. Sometimes it's hard, just thinking the stories I've heard. Like about a doctor who was having a section on a becoming mother. He leaves the mother open on a table and goes to a husband, asking 250 € or the mother and a baby will die. The husband asks some time to collect the money and calls the police. He gets instructions to pay and take serial numbers of the notes he gives, and then the police will come. If they find these bills from the doctor they'll arrest him. And they did. This happened on Saturday. On Monday the doctor was back to work. Less dramatic but equally horrible was a story of a poor couple, mother giving birth. Hospital treatment should be free, but she had been in pain for three days because the couple couldn't afford paying a doctor to start the delivery. The couple was from a smaller town, and the husband couldn't afford traveling every day so he slept outside in a hospital yard.

You want to hear more about bribing and corruption? Closer than health”care” system, I have been able to follow what happens inside the education system. Now THAT is something unequal.

Yet, life is not miserable. Just DON'T end up in hospital. And don't study.

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