Emergency patients to get free emergency drugs at ESPH

By ALICE NICART
September 9, 2010

BORONGAN, Eastern Samar  –  Eastern Samar Provincial Hospital (ESPH) is now admitting patients to the emergency rooms with free medical needs.

Launched recently in a simple ceremony at the ESPH, the program “Go Aklan Para sa Kalusugan” aims to alleviate poor patients of their financial burdens as they submit for medical treatment.

Vice-Mayor Gil Norman Germino, Provincial Focal Person for Health said that unlike in the past, when emergency patients had to buy cottons, plasters, needles, gauze even paracetamols even as the need was urgent, today, with the program of Governor Conrado Nicart, Jr., ESPH will shoulder these basic needs.

In his message, Gov. Nicart stressed however, that only in the emergency rooms will patients have to get free drugs and other needs, but as he is transferred to the ward, the billing starts.

He said that the program which will run for three years is never for political purposes but in the service for the poor.

“Dire in pamulitika kay nag-daog na ak, it ak la nga makapagserbisyo kita kay asya man it ginlalauman hit at mga tawo.  Dire daman in sugaron nga nasunod la ak kan Vice-Mayor Germino, kay hi ako it nasumat ha iya kun ano it maupay buhaton. Ginbuburubligan namon ine sugad hit iba nga mga programa ha probinsya”, pointed Gov. Nicart.

He appealed to the doctors and nurses present to always man the wards.

“Unta, regular nga susudoyon it at mga wards hin mga taga hospital, kun mahihimo la, magtulo ka shift, hin tag-walo ka oras it at mga nurse, kay makure daman ngin pirmi pirmi nala daman it usa ka tawo nga asya it magjejenuti.  May mga adlaw nga makakanhe la ak ha hospital, dire ko karuyag kitaon nga wara otoridad hit hospital nga na-duty ha mga ward”, the Governor added.

Asked what these medicines are which will given for free at the emergency room, Dr. Mac Felicen said that these are the first line medicines, i.e. pain medicines and anti-bacterial and other basic needs.

Mrs. Mabel Bugtas, the nurse on duty during the interview also clarified that even well-off patients can avail of these emergency grants at the emergency rooms.