HEALTH UNFAIRNESS

Sometime's I feel that we Honduran's are criticized because we never take care of our health. Or foreigners might think that our health situation is very low because we are messy or something. Before I use to agree but not now.

Now, I consider that I did some research by mistake.

This is the fourth time this year that I go to what we Honduran's call a health center, which in Spanish will obviously be Centro de Salud. Anyway these health centers are made to help the people in Honduras that are not able to pay a private clinic (almost all Honduran's).

Let me tell you a few things I found out about these HELL centers.

First if you want to be examined by a doctor, you have to be there waiting for them to open up at five A.M., even though they won't open up until seven thirty (remeber Honduran hour)! Step two, you have to take the horribble attitudes that the HELL center employees have, for example they yell at you and basically shut you up (that's only if you're dying and really want to be seen by the doctor). Than if you are soemeone like me, you wouldn't take that attitude from them, so when you go to human resources to tell on them.......THERE IS NOBODY THERE!!!!! Obviously. So what needs to be done than? You put your head down, and walk back to the line where you were being basically insulted and then wait for ten million hours to be seen by the doctor. Well when it's finally your turn, and you are starving also (because if you eat the food they sell there, you will come out sicker than you went in) you thank god! Well you are explaining to the doctor what your problem is when he cuts you right in between of your explanation to talk on the phone, when you go on with your explanation when he's finished, walks in the cleaning lady who brought her cousin's boyfriend because his sick and can you guess what happens next?

Well you guessed right......the doctor checks the cleaning lady's cousin's boyfriend before he checks you. Finally the doctor finishes, checks you up and than writes down the medicines you have to get at the HELL center's farmacy. Thank the lord that you are out, than it turns out that in the farmacy they ran out of the medicine that you need so you need to buy it at another farmacy and actually pay a whole bunch of money.

You realize that the purpose of coming to the free HELL center was because you are broke and you have no money to buy your medication and you get really pissed off because you are starving, still sick and you lost your whole day on nothing.

Now do you see why we Hondurans have no way of being healthy unless we spend all our money at the pharmacy, which is also a mistake because the pharmacist never knows what type of medication should be taken! (But this is another story)

It's the truth guys. This is the reason why these places should be called HELL and not Health Centers. That's why in Honduran women are always pregnant (they aren't able to get birth-control), children are born with birth defects alot more than in other countries, kids are always sick, and so on, you can imagine the rest!

So my suggestion is that people should work their butt off to have a huge bank account so that when they get sick, they have enough money to leave the country and go get cured somewhere else!