Soon-Ruiz: Hospitals need to be oriented to service
HOSPITAL staff and personnel should undergo intensive orientation and values formation so they would take better care of their patients, said One Cebu vice gubernatorial candidate Nerissa Soon-Ruiz.
“This is to inculcate values and service for them and not to think on how much they get. Health is not about business,” Soon- Ruiz said during yesterday’s 888 News Forum.
“Equipment for X-rays, dialysis, and even for ultra sound should be available in order to decongest Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC),” she added.
Soon-Ruiz said this in response to the recent spate of deaths of children in some provincial district hospitals.
She said there should be a committee that will handle trainings and facilitate the provision of equipment to hospitals.
Regional Director Jaime Bernadas of the Department of Health (DOH) agreed.
“I agree to a certain extent that the practice of the medical profession shall be directed to humanitarian services rather than monetary return,” he said.
“In any emergency, money should never be a question. As a doctor, you have to deliver service without asking anything,” he told reporters.
Bernadas said it’s important to institutionalize quality health care regardless of the patient’s status.
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