What does the hospital do? Why do we build a hospital? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the English word “hospital” originally comes from the Latin noun “hopes,” which stands for “a guest or visitor” and “one who provides lodging or entertainment for a guest or visitor.” Oxford dictionary says noun. /ˈhɒspɪtl/ /ˈhɑːspɪtl/ a large building where people who are ill or injured are given medical treatment and care.
I brought up this topic to understand how we should take our
hospital services. In a hospital, a patient should get treatment if they need
it. All patients who seek medical help should get that help. When the hospital
finds out there is nothing more to do, the patient may go home with proper instruments
to continue the healthcare service in their home. We can’t keep patients like
this in the hospital. Otherwise, all hospital beds will be filled with
patients, and there won’t be any space for new ones. We know that every hospital
gets new patients with different problems every day.
Before I joined the Community Worker Program, I used to work
in an organization. One day, one of my elderly colleagues said he kept his wife
in the hospital. She is sick, her memory is lost, and nothing can be done to
her recovery. He visits her every 1 to 3 months. That is also not needed
because most of the time, she doesn’t recognize him. I was surprised to hear
that because in my country, hospitals will never act like nursing homes; they will need beds for those who need treatments. But my colleague said this is
Canada, and he is happy that he doesn’t need to take care of his wife and not
pay for anything (Medicine, dress, etc.).
I know this sounds brutal. But if you do your math, you will
understand it’s impossible to keep a patient like this. Today or tomorrow, the
hospital authority will have to act on it.
That’s why I think we are fighting with the wrong point. We
shouldn’t fight to keep nursing home patients in hospitals. We should fight to
have government-owned nursing homes with all the necessary equipment, good
management, nurses, and doctors. Where an elderly patient can live happily,
which should be free and accessible for all who need it as a Canadian is
supposed to have.
During the pandemic, when oxygen support was in crisis, hospitals
needed to decide who should get the facility, the younger or older patient. It
goes for the younger one. Who lives along with the support.
In Japan, there was a nuclear incident in an area. To clean
that area, elderly people volunteer to go because they don’t want the younger
generation to have a chemical reaction.
I am bringing this logic to support my point that hospitals
should be for patients who need treatments. Canada’s nursing homes are facing
lots of troubles. Our military support group also suggested that workers try hard,
but the management isn’t supporting them enough to solve the problems.
That’s why we need to ask our government not to privatize nursing homes anymore. Instead, they should create enough government-owned nursing homes for the elderly so that nobody worries about where they will go in their old age or who will care for them.
I am not supporting the act. We can’t forcefully remove any patient when we don’t make the proper solution for them. We need to ensure good homes for them first. We may not take more patients like this to stay in the hospital, but we can’t forcefully move anyone. Elderly people also have a voice to make the decision for themselves.
References:
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hospital
noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com. (2023).
Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hospital#:~:text=hospital-
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Staff,
R. (2020, April 27). False claim: Hospital stands for “house of sick people in
trauma and labor.” Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-hospital-stands-for-idUSKCN229262
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Sasaki, K., Gr, A. 72-Year-Old, & plant, mother who has
volunteered to help clean up the F. nuclear. (n.d.). Japanese Seniors:
Send Us To Damaged Nuclear Plant. NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2011/09/12/140402430/japanese-seniors-send-us-to-damaged-nuclear-plant
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