Have been travelling through Peru for the past couple of days with a from Diarrhea suffering Nigel. When it got to the point where he couldn´t keep anything in anymore & lost his appetite completely we decided to go to the hospital in Tacna, a bordertown close to Chile.
I don´t think anyone of you has been to a hospital like that before, the word CHAOTIC describes it perfectly!!! When I walked into the emergency room I could watch a surgery going on through an open door, the patient unconscious on the table and the doctor stitching his head back together, blood everywhere... YUM!
After struggling with explaining what Nigel´s problem was (the fact that the nurses & doctors spoke REALLY fast didn´t make the whole situation easier) we got sent from one place to the next one, had to pay for the consultation in a different part of the building, head back and hand in a stoolsample, pay for the labratory expenses (again in a different part of the building), get all the medication in the hospital farmacy and additionally stop at a farmacy outside the hospital complex cause apparently they didn´t have syringes in the hospital...!!!
After 3 hours they eventually injected some undefinable liquid into Nigel´s vein and sent us home with some antibiotics.
I´m more than glad that I haven´t been seriously sick on this trip! I have to say I don´t really trust this whole system.
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Here in Brazil, public hospitals have the same scenario.
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