People of Cebu Asked to Donate 100p

to save Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC)

Cebu City Mayor Osmeña has proposed to sell a public hospital. This hospital, Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC), is the primary provider medical care for the poor Filipino of Cebu. The mayor went on to indicate that he was unhappy with the workers at the hospital as they had become unmotivated and too comfortable in the positions with no threat of serious disciplinary action. The language by the mayor was quite harsh, much more harsh that any expat should use while a visitor in another land. He can say those things, I can’t, or shouldn’t, even if I knew them to be true. I don’t know for myself but as a career US Federal Employee, I can relate to what the mayor is saying. He believed that making the hospital private would solve this problem. He is probably correct but he also wants any buyer to guarantee that Cebu’s indigent citizens will continue to receive care from the hospital. I don’t understand how introducing a profit motive into a hospital can also make it a charity hospital. The only way would be to make it so superior to other hospitals that it would draw the rich that would be willing to pay more than average cost in order to fund the care of the poor. Even that idea seems unlikely to me. I don’t think it is possible to do what the Cebu City Mayor wishes to do.

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