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Cutting Costs to ridiculous levels
Not that she's that popular with the general populace, but she seems to be taking her independence and control of things to its logical extremes.
The Dispensary at the Vaiola Hospital has decided that for the good of Government, and the people of Tonga?, no longer carries basic medication such as penicillin as well as some seriously important medication such as heart related tablets.
Her logic seems to be:
1. Penicillin, antibiotics is in high demand by Doctors for patients. Since it is expensive, we'll let the private clinics bring the medication in and people can go over there to buy them.
2. People can afford to come into town, so they definitely can afford to buy their own medications.
Wow, I guess there must be some new rarefied air with the air-conditioning at the Dispensary. The cool air must be letting daydream that the long queue outside are definitely dirty, unclean, scum who are just too lazy to walk to the clinics and pay real money for treatment.
There's a hell of a lot of people out there in Tonga Land who can't afford basic foods, and now they can't even get medication. So, instead of getting cured of that cough/tonsillitis or whatever basic illness that is readily treated with antibiotics, you just have to go home and keep warm and wait for your depleted immune system to fight the disease.
We always get our medication at the clinics, basically because I hate the unknown quantity of the lines at the hospital and the dispensary. Obviously, when the clinics are not open, then no-one has a choice but to do the Hospital Dance. Whenever we're at the clinics, the Tongan Doctors always tell us to buy from their stock whereas we've seen the same Doctors write prescriptions for other patients to pick-up the medication from the Hospital.
For those who can afford, the clinics have always been a better option than the hospital (where they are appropriate) unfortunately, Universal Health Care means that the poor and disadvantaged who cannot afford private health care need access to basic health services. Some of us think that basic medication is included in basic health services.
I hope someone at MOH can clean up the act of the Dispensary, it isn't a joke anymore.
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