The anonymous report on Facebook made terrible accusations against the doctors of the hospital in refusing treatment, demanding money up front before treatment and not advising deaths to gain more money for days in bed. Does the family not notice that the loved one is dead?
Why was an official complaint not made? The Facebook attack seems to stink. It has all the hallmarks of a revenge attack.
The fact that the writer has not given a name really nullifies all such claims. I have had dealings with the PIH over the years with two daughters born there and recall nothing but professional support and a requirement to settle the bill after treatment.
Of course critics will claim that the need to settle later was because I was an expatriate. But I am sure that all patients are given the same professional treatment.
The anonymous Facebook author claimed that doctors were not properly qualified and rejects from other countries.
As for dead bodies in bed, the mind boggles. How would this person know? That would be very specific in-house knowledge.
AIDS Holistics has sympathy for the hate mail being directed at the doctors of PIH. The founder has suffered scurrilous defamation from Australian advisors for the last 10 years.
We have always associated such internet hate mail as coming from expatriate gay and lesbian advisors.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/141461412634844/
We have always associated such internet hate mail as coming from expatriate gay and lesbian advisors.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/141461412634844/
The public statement in The National today shows that there was detailed treatment of the boy at the hospital at least until his condition had stabilized. He was not refused treatment.
The crowded waiting room of the PIH attests to the fact that the hospital is held in high regard by crowds of Port Moresby residents.
Just something totally unbelievable is the claim by one of the ex employees (who was fired for working on the side for an Evacuation company when she had an exclusive contract with PIH and putting the money received in her own pocket which would have rightly and morally if not legally belonged to PIH, as the Evacuation company already had an existing arrangement already with PNG to provide Doctors as Medical escorts) that dead bodies were kept for six days. For one, dead bodies decompose in a matter of hours and PIH as far as I know does not have a Mortuary so how did they manage to keep the dead body for that long, secondly the family would not have agreed to it unless there was still life and therefore hope for recovery even if just a little bit, and thirdly PIH is so busy they don't even have enough beds to cater for their thousands of clients. they would make the money regardless.
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