With regards to Lim Sheng Ming’s post on the Brunei healthcare service, I would like to add a few more points.
The RIPAS Hospital is filthy. How can we feel confident when the surroundings alone arouses revulsion? I’m sure everyone has heard horror stories about the toilets. Yeuggh. That fact alone is enough to crumble all the confidence I have towards hospitals and all government institutions as a general. If for once, I come to RIPAS and not go home with a terrible allergy I would be very happy. Cleaning RIPAS AND maintaining that level of cleanliness would be the most important milestone ever!
Imagine the indirect effects of a clean environment:
- For once everyone’s mouth will not be permanently distorted to either an “ewwww” shape or a “urggh” shape.
- Happier doctors who are more pleasant to the patients, nurses and all hospital staff because they didn’t wake up that morning to go to work at a dust pan.
- Nurses who are more accomodating to the patient’s needs because they didn’t have to deal with moodiness form the doctors. Furthermore, for once they don’t have to hold all their bodilly functions until the end of their shifts.
- Hospital administrative staff who are more willing to go through the ever notorious red tape to get better, more advanced equipment because they suddenly realise that since they don’t need to spend 7 hours everyday organising and cleaning their desks they could actually get more work done.
- The same comment in #3 applies to the administrative staff. They can actually do their business during office hours and so they need not hit the Mall in search of a clean toilet. More work done: they get great ideas, they do campaigns to spread awareness of AIDS, cancer, autism, heart problems, diabetes, cholestrol, obesity and promote a healthier lifestyle towards the population of Brunei.
- The cycle continues as the doctors become less moody and are able to treat more patients a day with the more advanced equipment and single-handedly increased the standard of living in Brunei.
Ahh. It is the attainable dream. Yet I know, that tommorow, and the day after and the day after, no one will want to take this post seriously and let the hospital rot like the bodies in the morgue that no one wants to pick up. That makes me sad.
Good luck RIPAS Hospital, and the Ministry of Health. You have a big job ahead of you. You only need baby steps.
iammaurina 
Ha ha ha….. i laugh reading this. You know what typical. So very typical. yes the toilet is filty… yes the drs are rude some times….. Have you ever thought…. maybe instead of complaining to do something about it? Its not just the Ministry who has to deal with it… perhaps the cleaners should be cleaning toilets instead of doing other things like pretending to be nurses and sitting with drs in their rooms calling the patient in. What about the people who go to the hospital maybe they should not be so filthy in the first place. In the case of the doctors…. maybe patients should not be so BITCHY in the first place then they do not have to deal with MOODY doctors. You know there is always another side of the story not just one. You think about it.
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Hahaha yes Typical, I do agree. My point was that, sometimes when we do something small, it can make huge impacts whether directly or indirectly. I’ve never really encountered any cranky doctors but friends of mine complain about it all the time. But when I think about all the people they encounter every single day, and the work risks they face in their jobs, I can’t help but think : FARKING HELL, I’D BE CRANKY AS WELL! On top of that, you can’t wee wee, SIGH. Kesian right? I’ve sidetracked, but the point is, little things do matter.
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Do you know why the toilets in Brunei are filthy? It’s because the people are filthy. Why maintain the toilets when everyone’s just going to crap and mess it up?
Haha, your post proved to be very entertaining. Ah Bruneians, land of the country where people just mouth off at EVERYTHING – and never seem to do anything about it. Perhaps you should send in a complaint to the ministry rather than posting up your ideas on your site.
Good luck with that. ^_^
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Why maintain the toilets when everyone’s just going to crap and mess it up?—> Uh, because it is a HOSPITAL? You know, where people recover and get better instead of acquire diseases?
Ah Bruneians, land of the country where people just mouth off at EVERYTHING—-> You know, kinda like what you’re doing right now calling them filthy and stuff. Or are you an exception?
The post wasn’t a complaint, if you haven’t noticed. It was just facts (followed by speculation) in response to the Ministry’s call to the public for more confidence in the hospital’s practice. It was part of an ongoing dialogue which you actually CAN contribute with your own constructive criticisms.
It is easy to pinpoint fingers, but what anyone really need is offering solutions, not just blaming and crossing your arms and saying you can’t do anything about it. Sometimes a little goes a long way.
Maybe you can take a little responsibility by writing that letter. You use the hospital too no? Just because my ideas are on my site, does not mean I have never written a formal letter to the ministry.
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