It has been a rough day for me. Honestly, my happiness for being officially an aunt for the very first time was clouded by today’s events.
A proud Aunt I am to a bouncing baby boy!
My SIL incurred a postnatal complication after 6 days of giving birth. Everyone at home panicked. While I was busy doing my daily blogging chores early in the morning, I felt my heart stop when I read my Mom’s SMS asking for help. I had to call her immediately and I got even more shocked when I heard her crying and hysterical over the phone. I felt numbed. I didn’t know what to do. I had to gather my wits back and had to call my youngest brother to fetch me in my apartment. Believe me. I rushed to the hospital bra-less and my bottom’s button missing. I just had to get there to the hospital pronto.
When I arrived at the hospital, I witnessed my SIL having another seizure attack. It made me so nervous seeing her like that! No wonder my mother panicked and our neighbors had to calm her down because mom was too hysterical. My SIL was on oxygen and on catheter. We were told by her gynae that my SIL is having a bad case of postnatal eclampsia.
I can’t believe that it can be possible for a woman who had a normal delivery to a healthy bouncing baby boy! I had to be there for my brother who obviously was also in a state of shock. I was told that eclampsia happens to 1 out of 2,000 women. It can be extremely life threatening and a woman can have severe complications. Oh boy! The risks of childbirth!
When everything had settled down, my brother retold the story beginning from when they arrived at the hospital. I can’t help but express my angst at the hospital Staff at the Emergency Room. Had I known the story much earlier, I would have fuc**d them off.
As I learned, they were intentionally blocked by the security personnel from seeking treatment at the ER because they were told that the only available room was Suite Room.
To make matters worse, instead of looking after the patient and offering medical assistance right then and there, what they were interested in was whether my brother could afford to pay for the room!
When my brother realized what they were up to, he demanded for medical attention be given first and then later asked for an immediate transfer to a different hospital.
The Resident Doctor must have seen the anger on my brother’s face and this led them to immediately provide attention to my SIL. At the end of this traumatic episode, my SIL was tranferred to a different hospital by ambulance.
What’s happening to my country?
Will the Filipinos be always deprived of medical care and more so when it is critical? Who are we going to blame for these blatant unprofessional ethics? Can we always let them off the hook for being so negligent with their duties? The decaying system of the government is very evident everywhere.
For two thirds of the Philippine population who are born without the means to pay for a life above subsistence level, these people have been duped by a democratic process to believe that the commonwealth promises of a better tomorrow will be fulfilled by the high and mighty. So are we to assume that in this country reborn by a PEOPLE POWER INSURGENCY to make that change in leadership and with HOPE for a positive change, these same people are left to rot in their destitute condition and in this case of medical support and relief, to be treated worse than animals?
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Asa nga hospital ni Laine?
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Lainybelle Reply:
October 19th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
@Lynn,
Sa St. Elizabeth, Lynn. Nagtransfer mi sa SOCSARGEN Hospital.
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Ahh… I feel like crying with what your SIL has experienced, Sis! Maong mahadlok ko maghuna-huna manganak diha sa atoa. I can’t imagine myself jud with how hassle my pregnancy and birthing experience was with Triz, kung diha pa to naku na-agian, ambrot ug buhi pa ba kaya ko now! LOL. Pait jud palandungon nga ing-ana ka-severe ang medical situation diha sa atong nasud. Oh when will the government care? Postnatal eclampsia happens rarely, but when it does, it is so severe as well that it can lead to death. I know because we have a family friend who went through the same and it’s been three years since her death.
I am just thankful to know that your SIL is now fine. And, congratulations sa inyong baby boy! Pakugos bi!
I can smell the baby smell. What a lucky baby for having surrounded with great people in your family! Si Madear ma-imagine naku nga nag-hysterical and you, too, with how you rushed to the hospital. Grabe jud to nga adrenaline ba. 
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I hope your SIL is doing well na. Ganyan talaga sa atin sis., kaya ang sabi nga mahirap maging mahirap, imbes na buhay muna ang unahin ., eh pera ang main concern.,
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i hope all is well with your SIL now, laine. i was holding on to my seat while reading this. nakakatakot talaga ang complications and risks ng childbirth, and much more, when it actually happens to you or a loved one. i can feel your panic. i’m glad you were able to transfer your SIL. so sad and frustrating talaga ang healthcare system sa Pilipinas. i used to work in a hospital for four years as a med tech and after that super na burnt out ako i changed career and never felt like working in a hospital again. nakakaawa din ang mga healthcare professionals sa’tin because they are not well compensated
the government should designate a portion of taxes to fund for universal healthcare system allowing every Filipino to have access to at least basic health care and emergency services without worrying about fees and medical bills. that’s what we have in Canada, so lahat medically insured.
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I knew it. During the time nga sige ka-hospital ako late hubby, once ra jud mi ka-try didto og wa na jud mi nibalik. My fave jud is gsdh kay asikasuhon na nila ang patient habang ga process sa docs ang watcher. Sa diha nga hosp, process usa ka og pay bag-o nila asikusuhon ang pt maskin pa nagkalisod na og ginhawa. Og dili lang kami ang may reklamo nga ana. Daghan na.
Anyway, get well soon sa imong SIL, Laine and congratulations sa bag-ong baby.
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Grrrr! Bring me there and I will bite those bad people’s ass.
Or you tell me where you want me to bite them.
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Oh wow. I can feel you. When my sister got dengue, we went to Davao to admit her in a better hospital, but what’s frustrating is before they take my sister to the ER they ask first about if we can afford or if we have PhilHealth.
Fortunately, my father have a PhilHealth and that’s then they rush my sister to the ER!
Hope your SIL will be fully fine soon.
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hala! hadlok man di ay nangyari te uy
… gisumbag unta to ni kuya ang security… 
unta ok na ang tanan dinha te… :-s
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Hospitals and doctors are choosing to be business minded instead life savers, this is something common in most of the hospitals lately. And its pathetic.
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I feel your pain. We went through something similar with my nephew when he had Dengue Fever. It was only when I empty my bank account and send it to my wife that they started jumping through hoops to help.
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Congrats Lainy for officially being an Aunt. He is ur first pamangkin right? I am sad about what happened to your SIL though. Makalagot jud usahay ng mga hostpital. Money usa ilang tan-awon ayha ang pasyente. Hay…unsaon nalang ang Pinas.
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hay! bwisit sila!!!
musta na jan te???
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I hope your SIL’s okay now. I presume she had hypertension during or after delivery of the baby. Sad to hear about what she went through at the hospital.
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I must admit that this kind of situation is happening not just in your area but also in prominent and big cities like Cebu. I remembered this kind of situation when I was still working in ERUF were hospitals hesitate to accept the patient we brought due to financial reasons. But let it be known that it is a law that imposes sanctions to hospitals not to accept patients in emergency cases. They must take care of the patient first before refusing them to be admitted if they can’t afford or else they must transfer them after giving first aid.
But let us not put all the blame to the staff alone, remember that they are also bound to the hospital policy.
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I guess hospital staffs these days forget about their oaths
& the no. 1. FILIPINO PATIENT’S BILL OF RIGHTS, that is, the patient has the right to considerate & respectful care, irrespective of socio-economic status.
Discrimination in the health care system should be stamped out.
Every patient brought in the emergency department deserves urgent care & compassion.
It is really a sad reality in the Philippines that some hospitals forget about their vision/mission statements. I hope hospital staffs should not only think of the hospital policy & how
poorly they are compensated, instead, focus on the real essence
of their profession. ^^,)
Anyway, I’m glad that your SIL was discharged this afternoon.
I hope she will fully recover soon.
Congrats sa bouncing baby boy nyo tita laine ^^,)
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sir rob Reply:
October 25th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Let’s not put all the blame to the doctors and nurses, let us all remember that they are hospital administrators the run the hospital policy which the doctors and nurse are bound to follow.
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So sad to hear on what happened to your SIL Sis! This is what I hate in our medical care system in the Philippines. This has been a long time issue which was never addressed until now. They stick to the hospital policies without considering that life is already at stake. Pano na yung mga wala talagang pambayad ? Pababayaan na lang ba sila?
Ano yan fast food? Pay as you order?
Good thing your SIL is ok now. Hope she will fully recover soon.
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congrats for being a new Aunt, that baby boy will be spoiled by her Aunt, sorry to hear about your SIL, how is she now? Hope she is fully recovered, visiting for WW, hope that you can visit me back too
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Nibalik ko diri Sis naghatod sa akong WW entries.
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I also experienced professional negligence when i brought my son to the goverment hospital (nearest hospital in my place) 3 years ago, few hours before christmas. i was crying and begging the nurses that was on duty at the ER to checked on my son but no one seems to listen to me, that was the time i realize that government hospital in our country sucks..anyway, i hope you SIL will get well soon and congrats for being an official Aunt.. for sure the little boy will be pampared…
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@ Lainy,
I am ever willing to register a Domain and provide hosting for a Blog for the purpose of exposing clinics and hospitals in the Philippines that fail to even meet the standards of medical expectations of the common man.
The Blog will also expose Doctors and Nurses by name and medical practice location that are derelict in their sworn medical duties and responsibilities.
Clinics, hospitals, nurses, Doctors and Staff will be notified that whenever there is a complaint about them.
Rules on how this Blog is to be managed will be easily drafted for all Users.
Action speaks louder than words.
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I’m so sorry you had this terrible time. Thanks for sharing your blues.
Happy Blue Monday, Laine.
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Grabe na jud kaayo ang Philippines karon. Kwarta! Kwarta! If wa tay kwarta di jud e accept sa Hospitals even if 50/50 na ang pasyente.
I hope your SIL is now feeling better.
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i am so sorry about what happened to your SIL. Is she fine by now? what a healthy baby boy she and your brother have… and congrats on being an aunt! thanks for joining WW and hope to see you again this week, Lainy!
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hi tukayo! hope your SIL is doing ok now. hay naku if gnyan din cguro mangyari smin ung mas uunahin if my pambayad taz gnyan na ung situation bka magwala pa sa galit c mamiyo. tsk. how’s the baby tukayo? natouch nmn ako sa gnwa mo khit d ka tlga nkapag aus tlgang super lusob na just to check if musta na cla..sabagay khit sino cguro matataranta sa nangyari…hope mging mablis paggaling nia. and c baby hope magstay na healthy…:)
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