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HEALTH CARE IN UKRAINE: By Anonymus

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Ukrainian “Free” Medicine
By Anonymus

  Only in Ukraine it is cheaper to be treated by yourself than to use the services of free medicine. So I'll tell you just a bit about difficulties that you'll have to overcome in a usual Ukrainian district hospital. Once my friend from another country came to Ukraine and here accidentaly broke his leg.

Firstly, he came to the hospital but it was not a reception day so everybody was too lazy to help him(by the way, my friend is very reserved and patient, so he doesn’t show his feelings and emotions; consequently doctors didn’t really pay attention to his leg). Secondly, he waited for his turn to the podiatrist for two hours although his leg ached a lot. Then a doctor examined him and referred to a radiologist, who worked on the 9th floor. Of course the elevator in our hospital didn't work, so he was forced to walk up the stairs despite the fact that his leg had been fractured. Having put on shoe covers by himself he finally reached the radiologist’s office. There he had his leg X-rayed. The pain was so unbearable, that my friend asked some remedy for it and heard an answer: ‘We are run out of painkillers’. All in all, the podiatrist made a diagnosis and finally put the leg in a plaster.

However in two days my poor friend had to go to the hospital again, because the doctor had plastered the leg in the wrong way so it had to be operated. He left Ukraine with words: ‘The only “free” thing in your hospitals is a nervous breakdown.