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You say that only "big, public" hospitals can afford the NICU. But don't you just mean "big"? It's just a question of how often it is used, right?
by xhkkffbf 1y ago
You say that only "big, public" hospitals can afford the NICU. But don't you just mean "big"? It's just a question of how often it is used, right?
- epolanski 1y agoIn Switzerland *no single hospital* has a proper PICU. There's one in Luzern and St. Gallen but they are under equipped for all the emergency situations. They are essentially sub-intensive, and if your child has such a complication, good luck. The only ones that do are all university hospitals and they only do so because they operate on a very different financial non-profit model. And I'm talking about Switzerland. PICU isn't just an example of service and treatments where even very very rich countries with quality healthcare are relatively uncovered compared to much poorer countries with public health care. It's not even the happiest one, because PICU is still "relatively" common, so I don't want to focus on it. Other examples of treatments that are relatively common in public health care are organ transplants, ICU for infective diseases, post trauma (stroke-like) rehabilitation are just some of the examples of treatments you're gonna find in many public hospitals in a country but extremely rarely in neighboring countries with excellent private healthcare.