From Tianya:
A Hong Kong compatriot’s feelings about medical accidents in mainland
Summary: A Hong Konger describes her positive experience with the health care system in Hong Kong.
[The actual description was pretty lengthy so I have summarized the main points.]
- While out with her father, she had a bad fall in a shopping mall at Causeway Bay. Within 1 minute, 2 security guards appeared and showed her a lot of attention even though she said that the accident was clearly caused by carelessness on her part. The guards replied that they had the responsibility to attend to her as the incident occurred in the mall, and even said that the mall management will take responsibility for this incident if need be.
- Eventually, seeing that the injury on one of her legs was pretty serious, the guards called for an ambulance which arrived in about 5mins. The LZ and her father thanked the guards, who said that they will call her that night.
- Entering the hospital, the LZ was reminded by some nurses that if her father was a civil servant, she (as a family member) need not pay the basic 100元 fee, to which she replied that her father had retired and thus she had to pay.
- At the ER, she was classified as a 2nd priority emergency patient (there were priority classes) and she waited for about 30mins before being called.
- At the treatment room, a nurse checked her medical records which indicated that she took her last tetanus shot 20 years ago, and decided to give her a strengthening shot. Following that, a female doctor came in, examined her feet, thought it was fine and sent her off for an X-ray, but not before insisting that she took some painkillers.
- After reviewing the X-ray results, the doctor said that her leg was basically fine, got a nurse to help clean her wounds, issued her some painkiller, ointment and papers which allowed her to return to the hospital to clean her wound (everyday for 2 weeks), for free.
- The entire process took about 2.5 hours. By this time, she could already stand, and when her father received her, he said that the 2 guards from the mall called awhile ago and inquired about her condition.
- That night, while she was speaking to a friend from the Mainland via MSN:
Friend: Why are you so late tonight?
Me: Ohh, a lot happened today… (then I described the whole incident)
Friend: Are you OK now? Do take care in the future!
Me: You often say, there ain’t much difference between XX (the city my friend lives in) and HK. Don’t mind if I ask, if the same thing happened in XX, what would be happen?
Friend: I doubt anyone would bother.
Me: What about the hospital? Would it be the same both in XX and HK?
Friend: Hehe, we have a lot of private hospitals in XX which will be able to provide the same level of service and medical expertise!
Me: But today, I went to a public hospital, paid 100元, and enjoyed all this. Had I stayed there overnight, it would still be 100元. Do the common people in XX have access to such levels of welfare? Could they all have afforded treatment at a private hospital?
Friend: 唉 [Sigh]
Me: Good medical care should be a welfare given to all, not a privilege enjoyed by some! I hope that in the future, our friends in the mainland will not need worry about falling sick!
Friend: …唉 [Sigh]
Comments from Tianya:
k800k:
No wonder so many are doing everything they can to emigrate to HK.
司空仪:
HKers are so blessed.
刘秋珍:
Seeing this, I cried, crying with mixed emotions (18 to be exact)
北园一翁:
No comments. I cried. As we say over here “having no illness is a blessing”. I look down on illness.
香港女同胞 (Note: She’s the thread starter or LZ):
Sorry to make you cry. Let me tell you, I cried that night after speaking to my friend. Yes, China today is strong and powerful, especially her economy and a small portion has prospered. But life remains hard for a large majority, medical care is expensive, and good treatment is not guaranteed even after spending some money. I do not want to criticise the government (and have this thread removed) =.= I only wanted to share my little experience. Should a day come when every Chinese citizen is equal, receives fully covered emergency treatment for 100元, that is the day when we have truly stood up.
天边一只雁2:
Socialism is the initial stage of communism. When we attain a communist society, we would be 10,000 times better off than HK!
梦想去飞翔:
How many cancer patients in HK have experienced delays while waiting to be transferred over to specialist doctors? How many patient’s condition had worsened while waiting in line for a bed at the public hospitals? Can the LZ comment on this? Most importantly, can the LZ tell everyone how much the HK government spends on medical treatments? How high is the medical expense per capita? And will the Chinese people be willing to subsidize this much? There are no free lunches in this world!
好人经常领卡:
I admit that the difference welfare standards between the mainland and HK are incomparable. But it doesn’t feel as if the thread was written by someone from HK. I don’t even think she’s from GuangDong.
natty26:
Why does this thread feel weird and kind of sour?
The purpose in writing this thread? To show off? To deal a blow? Criticism? Or 标题党？
You mean to say there have been no medical related incidents within HK?
Every country has a rich-poor gap, please do not take a part for the whole.
At least within my circle, no one has vexed over medical expenses.
金成日(in reply to the above post):
Are your servants living in Zhongnanhai? [Note: Zhongnanhai = CCP HQ]
affluent1:
No need to cry, HK is now our underling, it would be like the mainland within 50 years, no need to worry.
马甲第四季:
So you have to take an tetanus injection in HK if you happen to trip, kinda troublesome.
要雷就雷潜水员:
I’m willing to unconditionally accept and be administered by the HK government.
iguitar:
In mainland hospitals, even when you are almost breathing your last, you still have to pay a deposit first, else they would rather watch you die.
tiancai0597:
Too many mainlanders, hence the low worth.
joyalion:
I must study hard, work hard, bring my wife and children, and determinedly in the most crowded/busiest area of Hong Kong have a great fall.
无眼睇咯:
China is great, the people are rich and do not want to trouble the country, and our country does not want to bother us too.
迷失小妖:
HK, open some branches in the Mainland.
牛魔王巡山:
Let England rule over us then.
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