Doctor, Doctor I am Sick, Call the Nurse Very Quick!
It can't be stopped this migration of professional doctors outside of the Philippines. Every school year, many doctors are enrolling themselves in nursing schools and at least a hundred of these nurses a day leave the country to work elsewhere. The main reason really is that there is good pay and fair compensation. The demand for health workers in Europe and the U.S. is high and the promise of a more secure future for the family is so tempting that if it were a sin, Hell would be overcrowded.
This predicament has led to lesser doctors to attend to the ever growing population of patients. Instead of spending more time in their clinics doing consultations, doctors would spend more time studying for their nursing course. This results to lesser time spent in the hospitals thus lesser income for the hospitals and therefore the gradual shut down of these hospitals. The medical profession has lost its luster. Every year, the number of doctors applying for residency are declining. In contrast, high school students applying for college are lining up in thousands to enroll themselves in a nursing course.
And you can't blame these people. By the way things are going in the Promised Land we call Filipinas, it would be much better if one leaves this land of milk and honey and go to other lands flowing with greenbacks and euros instead. Besides, who needs milk these days? Not even a lactating mother has enough white juice for the sucking newborn. Undernourishment and poor maternal care has left most of our mothers dry. And with 5 more mouths to feed, not even the Patriarch Moses can draw milk from them dry rocks.
Unfortunately, this does not exclusively happen in the medical profession. Teachers are leaving their classrooms for better pay abroad. Highly skilled professionals are abandoning their workplaces for better compensation abroad. This leaves us with a sick and moronic country. Too sick to get up and march in the streets. Too stupid to vote for the highly qualified politicians. And our leeches in the government are loving this. For as long as this kind of trend continues, they shall remain in power almost perpetually.
There has to be a light somewhere. Something must be done. I am a patriot and an eternal optimist. I still believe that this country has a chance for a turnaround. And I believe that the answer lies in the collective heart of the Filipino nation. A national soul-searching must be done. And it has to begin ASAP.
If this one fails, see you in Ontario, Canada.
This predicament has led to lesser doctors to attend to the ever growing population of patients. Instead of spending more time in their clinics doing consultations, doctors would spend more time studying for their nursing course. This results to lesser time spent in the hospitals thus lesser income for the hospitals and therefore the gradual shut down of these hospitals. The medical profession has lost its luster. Every year, the number of doctors applying for residency are declining. In contrast, high school students applying for college are lining up in thousands to enroll themselves in a nursing course.
And you can't blame these people. By the way things are going in the Promised Land we call Filipinas, it would be much better if one leaves this land of milk and honey and go to other lands flowing with greenbacks and euros instead. Besides, who needs milk these days? Not even a lactating mother has enough white juice for the sucking newborn. Undernourishment and poor maternal care has left most of our mothers dry. And with 5 more mouths to feed, not even the Patriarch Moses can draw milk from them dry rocks.
Unfortunately, this does not exclusively happen in the medical profession. Teachers are leaving their classrooms for better pay abroad. Highly skilled professionals are abandoning their workplaces for better compensation abroad. This leaves us with a sick and moronic country. Too sick to get up and march in the streets. Too stupid to vote for the highly qualified politicians. And our leeches in the government are loving this. For as long as this kind of trend continues, they shall remain in power almost perpetually.
There has to be a light somewhere. Something must be done. I am a patriot and an eternal optimist. I still believe that this country has a chance for a turnaround. And I believe that the answer lies in the collective heart of the Filipino nation. A national soul-searching must be done. And it has to begin ASAP.
If this one fails, see you in Ontario, Canada.
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