Thanks for your kind words . We were at silliman medical centre. The thing was that they should have turned off the life support at 11pm sunday night when they stopped all medication we had allready signed a waver saying the medical centre was not responsible. The reason they did not stop the life support was they knew he would die before the account was paid. even if i had the money there i could not pay untill 9am till the accounts section opened, i have heard they can NOT stop you taking the body before the account IS paid. At no time did it enter my mind not to pay , we are hurt because they used our son as a tool to make money and collect money once again thanks
My honest condolences. The loss of a child is one of the worst things one can experience I saw people dying at this place over my time in Dumaguete, because they do not have some of the very basic life-support equipment.... but all the doctor cars outside are new and polished. They also work with the blood - mafia together, which is waiting right INSIDE the hospital, to receive a text when donors are needed. The texting nurse is barely 5 meters away and nods to those guys. Silliman in general uses everything they can to make money. They still live on the doubtful glory of the 60s and 70s and try to hammer that into the brains of people in this City. My prayers are with you and your family.
There's only one definition that fits the medical staff of Siliman dealing with this situation: big shame on you. Would be interested to know the name(s) of the one(s) involved.
The issue of blood stocks and the blood mafia at Silliman is a deja vu of when we lost forum member Jellyfish two years ago at the same hospital.
Well i got my face off today not with one but 2 persons one was a lawyer, I got the short end of the stick, I was told what happed was quiet legal, And be carefull what i said, and if i did not like the policy,s of the S.M.C dont use our service,s. Next stop is the ombudsman but i have a feeling the odds are stacked against me. im just another LNWWW.
Even that lawyer with his/her legal answer will once meets her/his Waterloo, wish I can be there @that time, no mercy. I will refrain from further comments into their direction. Btw what does LNWWW means I am not so familiar with all that kind of abbreviations.
If I was your situation, that is an advice, I would surely be very happy to follow. The Provincial Hospital isn´t really an alternative. But the Holy Child is a fairly obvious alternative, if you want to try something different. That is probably true. Unfair as their behaviour was, it was most likely legal. Consumer protection is an almost non-existing thing in most of Asia, and that also includes the Philippines. The business is always right, not the customer.... I actually don´t think, that it has anything to do with your skin colour. As you have written yourself, they were probably motivated by some legal twists and a desire to make sure, that the bill was paid. And that behaviour is for sure influenced by past experience with many filipino customers, who were unable to pay the bill. So I am quite sure a filipino would have been treated just as bad, as you did. And if I am honest, I also think that most if not all hospitals in the Philippines would have acted in the same way, since the problem with non-paying customers must be a very general one. So probably the staff have very strict instructions. Still it sucks to be treated that way, when you are in an emotionally very difficult situation already. It must be terrible to lose a child.......
