The health service in Chile

 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 have even died in the emergency room, in horrible conditions. 

I think it was in December 2019 that I was referred to a public program for psychological care. It took a little more than 6 months for me to be admitted and treated, because there were no places, and since the program was for minors, I did not have a complete treatment, because I turned 18 months after starting therapy.

Good public service is a basic right that we all deserve. But the reality in Chile is different and as it says in the photo 'here, the one who does not pay, dies'.Something extremely unfair, that should change. We all deserve free and quality services.