"Public hospitals, which provide the vast majority of secondary and tertiary medical care, have kept their emergency rooms, dialysis units, oncology departments, obstetric and neonatal departments, and other vital facilities working normally during the industrial action.....
....During the months of the strike, patients “have been going more to their family doctor and to hospital emergency rooms, which have not been affected by sanctions,”
What would the implications for someone deciding not to turn up for dialysis?
But it seems there may be an explainable link to elective surgeries
"Elective surgery can bring about a great improvement in a patient's condition, but it can also mean disability and death in the weakest patients. And patients who do not undergo diagnosis or surgery now could decline or die in a few months due to the postponement.”
That survey is not supportive of not going to hospital. I wonder if they did a follow up survey on deaths a few months later?
Janti, it is very disingenuous for you to pass that survey off as evidence for not going to hospital, unless it was done in jest??
You should consider your statement and its implications on some people reading it.
"You’re chances of survival are significantly higher if you don’t seek treatment."
