Exploring the Gaps in Patient Care Across Jamaica

[@HorsedeadCowfat]

That moderator is brilliant

[@nadinebeckford3340]

This is our opportunity to come together and raise funds to equip our healthcare facilities with what they need. Also encourage our people to stay and work here. We will not get better if we " ourselves " dont do nothing about it but instead talk and quarel about it.

[@kuyahkudey3217]

Well said!!

[@waitaminute2015]

Imagine being in an auto accident and the hospital doesn't have an MRI machine. Youd have to pay for a private drive to a private clinic, while you are in a hospital bed, and then back to the hospital. This is criminally inadequate.

[@eileenwatt8283]

This not true. When the hospital tells you that they are suppose to transport you in an ambulance to the MRI facility and the government pays. If they don't transport you then you have to pay..Jamaica has free health care but the public don't know how what they are entitled to. The facilities are also owned by doctors and they will send you there and charge you and also bill the government. I know this because my family there utilized the health care system effectively. They know how the system works. Jamaicans have to learn their health care system .

[@waitaminute2015]

@@eileenwatt8283 my grandmother was in St Ann's Bay last year. There was no ambulance, and it was up to us to transport her for an MRI. I suspected Drs owned the clinic they were sending us, and that should be illegal, as it's a conflict of interest. The oxygen she was supposed to be hooked up to was empty. She would have been better off at home. They did nothing except take up a bed. Nurses sit like statues in there with zero communication to patients or family. It's something from a horror film.

[@paulawhite5699]

Good conversation.

[@Throp]

thanks for watching

[@JohnnyJohnson-v7m]

Jamaica can provide comprehensive care to every jamaican citizens, by taking control of ganja industrial complex $dollars,it's a billion $annual export crop with 3 growing seasons & a 4th one with inside farming

[@mesandz2623]

And when u get the investigation results there not much u can do.

[@TravelsoFun]

This whole discussion is shocking 😮 😢! Not having the necessary basic equipment in a hospital to adequately treat a motor vehicle crash victim’s injuries!!!?? This causes people to die needlessly. Such deaths are highly preventable. Why call it a hospital when it’s not equipped to provide basic emergency services. That’s not a hospital. That’s a glorified clinic. Shameful 🤦🏽‍♀️!!! For reasons like this I will not be moving back home. I will stay in the USA, despite being tired of the racism here. I still have a better chance of surviving a stroke, heart attack or motor vehicle accident here in the USA. Been here 40 years now, since I was a teenager.

[@paulawhite5699]

This is stratified by income; this is not the case for all persons. Also, again by income many people have healthcare plans. And some hospitals are more sophisticated than others. Just like the States. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@eileenwatt8283]

What if you live out your life and never have any of those. You will regret staying.. American health care is a sick care system. If you do have any.of those they will keep you alive in a depelative state because it's a profit business.

[@waitaminute2015]

@@paulawhite5699 even if you are poor in the US, an ambulance will come and get you to a hospital and save your life. The ambulance in Jamaica wants the money up front and it's not more than a limo drive complete with a tie wearing driver. Japan donated ambulances for public use, but they were stuck in customs while everyone argued over who ( private) would own them. They aren't even staffed by EMT certified employees. It's a terrible joke.