Maca's Blog

Hi everyone! I hope everyone is doing well :) Today's topic is religion. Since I was little I was always close to religion, specifically the catholic church. I was baptized when I was like three years old and I went repeatedly to mass, to then make my first communion and later confirmation. I was always very attached, I participated in a choir for many years. My close circle and my friends were from the church, I went recurrently and firmly believed in what I was going to do there. But as the years went by, I felt increasingly far from the people around me there, and the purpose and motivation that I once had, I lost it. I stopped feeling close as I once did. The people,  the environment  and the church as an institution only began to cause me mistrust and discomfort, and my life, my beliefs and my thoughts no longer fitted with what the church is. So over time, I decided to walk away completely.  Even so, I always believed and believe that faith goes ...

 Hi everyone! Today's question is "What do I think of the health servce in our country?" From my personal experience, I find that the health system in Chile is clearly precarious and very expensive. Today medicines, therapies, tests, in the public system, costs an arm and a leg, so to speak, and therefore cost lives. I find that today, paying for and taking care of health is a privilege that few can afford, at least to pay for good services and treatments, since public attention is slow, precarious, scarce and does not have the necessary elements for good care. Although it is something totally basic and necessary for a good service, it is something that does not exist in the Chilean public system. Photo taken in the middle of the social outburst, October (2019). The public system is so deficient that for an appointment you have to wait months. To pay for treatments, you have to go into huge debt. To be treated in the emergency room, you have to wait many hours. People hav...