In spartan conditions of free medicine

Children's cries and crying will not stop for a minute. Behind a thin door in the hospital clearly heard the slightest noise. There are so many new patients that some of them are placed in a cold corridor. Available beds is long gone and desperate parents, dying at the hands of children, we can only hope that someone who had gone on the mend write today abandoned.

Still don't understand how the we has managed to be in that number. Even when you surround modern children with extreme care, you can't fully control their stay in preschool institutions and public places.

Yesterday, according to the law of meanness, the district therapist worked the first shift and the call home was issued only after dinner. The fever of 40 C degrees and other obvious signs of infection left no time for waiting.

Fortunately, despite the heavy snowfall, the ambulance reached in ten minutes, but another twenty minutes took the road to the hospital. Receiving rest, examination of the doctor and filling out documents. A small queue of new arrivals.

Until recently, my experience of staying in such medical institutions, was limited to a very childish age - eye injury and car accident. Only last spring managed, after a harmless cold began to burn with complications on the kidneys hospital.

The feeling that moved a quarter of a century ago, did not leave me last year, and yesterday only intensified. It's funny that in the infectious diseases unit banal is no soap in the toilets and the wards. Maybe just the parents before discharge drained?)

Terribly squeaky doors, metal beds, which are clearly designed in hell, as well as treatment with injections, before passing tests and diagnostics. On the morning we were waiting to run down the street to the office with an UZI in the other case.

On the one hand, we proudly announce the availability of free medicine in Russia, but on the other, for some reason we keep silent, that this is ensured by spartan conditions and minimal costs for the patient.