Best Posts in Thread: Clinic Care

PART 1: (Friday 2 June) Had occasion to visit the Clinic in Dauin - the one across the road from the dog arena. I'd slipped over on the boat ramp and gashed my arm. Lorraine suggested stitches, so I went. Was there a couple of hours. Registered, file opened, vitals taken. Inspected, wound cleaned, diagnosed. Swabbed, stitched (4), medication prescribed. The treatment all-up cost 500p. Medication (painkiller, anti-biotic) about 1000p. Very nice doctors, nurses, pharmacy and support staff. Went home, cursed the boat ramp and the cats whose kitty-litter tray I'd been emptying off the boat ramp.

PART 2: (Wednesday 7 June) Wound became infected - no pain, but swelling. Went back, 3 persons looked, probed, realized that their pharmacy hadn't had the correct anti-biotic on Friday and had substituted an inferior generic. New script, emphasizing I get a name pill rather than a generic from a Dauin pharmacy, 15 minutes, no cost. Back on Friday to have stitches removed.

SUMMARY: Very pleasant, professional, compassionate service. (Why am I not surprised?). And in-expensive... I like living here.

 

Yes, Mr Oinks, I've believed that too - patent out of time, other companies make the exactly the same thing, cheaper. Good for the poorer countries... But here we are, in the so-called 3rd World? Different standards...? And I must say, after a day on the 'name' tablets they said I should ask for, the swellings gone down.