By Apayi Nasab Peace, Uganda
On the picture Peace, Rachel and Saumu
The other day I visited a Danish hospital. I was amazed with the facilities – clean beds, free food, lots of nurses and plenty of space for the patients to feel comfortable.
This is totally contrary to the hospitals in Uganda. Here the rooms are very narrow with 25 crowded beds on each side of the walls. Patients of all ages and different diseases are mixed together - this can easily spread infections from one patient to another. Privacy is limited to people who can afford it – and they only get a thin curtain to devide their rooms. There are few nurses and one or two experienced docters per hospital who can not attend to thousands of patients who need to be exermined and treated as well. This eventually leads to high death rates without being attended to.
I experienced that Denmark enjoys free health services and have enough rooms to accomodate patients in all hospital centers. I have never attended free health services in my country because every health service you need costs a lot of money, even small things like toilet paper, gloves for the nurses and razar blades you have to pay for. Mattress and blanket you have to bring yourself.
I am glad for the Danish people because the state accounts for every citizen in aspect of health care. Healthy souls are important in achieving a welfare society and developing a country. I hope many developing countries like my country Uganda could adopt free health care.
Unless the developing states figure out to solve the health care problems for its citizens, it will take long to develop.
On the picture below: Peace
