When we are sick and need to see a specialist in the hospital, we need a referral letter from the polyclinic to become a subsidised patient, otherwise we will be treated as a private patient.
As a subsidised patient, we need to wait for many months before we can see a specialist but as a private patient we can see a specialist within a week in the same outpatient clinic of the same government hospital.
So, no money do not fall sick otherwise we have to suffer quietly and condition to deteriorate before we can see the specialist many months later.
How come the governemnt hospitals cannot practise the policy of any patient which requires specialists' attention (ie patients that are given referral letters by polyclinic dcotors) will be seen by a senior consultant or consultant doctor first within a week or two. After the first consultation, the patient will
then be assigned a specialist (Registrar, Assoc Consulant, Consultant or Senior Consultant) based on his or her specific condition. A more serious condition will be given an earlier date and a less
serious condition can be given a later date.
Under this new system, patients do not have to suffer quietly and conditions to deteriorate and tests can be done and be readied for the second consultation.
Please comment.
... this is called Affordable HellCare mah....