public hospitals
If you saw them you would be horrified. For example, no sheets on the cots, no meds - patients have to buy their own. On the night I was there we saw a women suffering with kidney stones and they did not have an infusion set. We bought one for her as we had to make the trip across the street to the farmacia to buy for our friend. Public health care here is dismal. You frequently see people in the street with deformed limbs from improperly set broken bones. There is just no money for public health. It is a thoroughly depressing situation. Even in the private clinics you have to be careful. My wife worked as a nurse for five years in a clinic and she was told by the doctors to wash the used latex gloves with soap and water and hang them up to dry for use the next day.