Doctor: “I diagnose according to the patient.”
Interviewer: “How else?” “Do people from the government ever come to check on you?”
Doctor: “I said I’m registered, right” “So what is there to check?”
…. : “Well you say on your board, you are a child specialist and surgeon.”
Doctor: “I only wrote surgeon.”
…. : “No it says ‘child specialist’ on the board.”
Doctor: “Well, I can diagnose children too.”
The kind of care you can access depends on the amount of money you have available. You wouldn’t go
sometimes to the best of the highest quality of health care because you don’t simply have that much of
money. No regulation... No standardization... No accountability… That’s what you have for private sector
so in the mean of efficiency what we have been promoting over the last few years is actually a kind of
market analogy. The poor should be able to receive the service they need at the cost they can effort.
Now if it’s very poor, service should be free.