by Rick Lowe
A friend called recently distressed that The Bahamas is considering a socialist model for health care in the form of the National Health Insurance Scheme.
In support of his argument that the country should consider a free market approach he dropped off a copy of the British journal The Daily Mail.
The page 10 article by James Chapman was headlined; Operations cut for lack of sterile equipment and it chronicled the high number of operations that are being cut in the British National Health Service.
Chapman notes:
In 2005/6 some 1,765 operations were cancelled because no sterile instruments were available at the 58 Health Service trusts who responded to requests for information.
In 2002/3 that figure stood at 1,252. Sixty-one operations were cancelled because of the problem at Cambridge University Hospitals Trust in 2002/3, rising to 232 in 2005/6.
At the Isle of Wight Healthcare Trust, the figure was up 800 per cent, from just eight to 63.
At Mid Essex Hospital Services Trust, the number went up from none to 97.
Read the entire article here....
With surgeons here at home reportedly taking their personal supplies to the public hospital to ensure their patients well being, it would be interesting to know the details of cancelled procedures here and for what reasons.
Visit the Daily Mail web site here...
