Medical System in Panama

Please see some advantages of the Medical System in Panama:

- Panama Possess different Private Hospitals were People will be able to find excellent service and medical attention with infrastructures completly designed with excellent levels of technology.
- The complaints due to the bad services and attention received from the medical personnel in the different Public Hospital have   considerably decreased.
- You No longer see   pregnant women in the ER’s Rooms complaining and crying due to delays in the attention, they are being inmediately guided to delivery rooms above other patients who arrived first and are waiting to be attended.
- The Government is investing Millions of Dollars to improve Public Hospital infrastructures.

Please see some disadvantages of the medical system in Panama:

- Public Hospitals are not the best, most of the time Panamanians need to wait several hours to receive medical care even in the ER rooms.
- Public Hospitals are lacking enough doctors to take care of all of the daily patients.
- In Public Hospital most of the nurses and Doctors are rude with the patients, and they take too much time in give them the necessary medical attention or treatment required, It just seems like they don’t care at all.
- You need to wake up very early in the morning and form long lines in order to get an appointment to see a doctor in a Public Hospital.
- The Only way to receive an excellent attention in a Public Hospital is having a Friend or a Relative working there otherwise they just put you in a Stretcher and totally forget about you.
- The Poor attention offered by doctors, nurses, and medical staff in Public Hospitals really affects patients with limited resources to afford attention at Private Hospitals.
- The Infrastructure and Buildings in Public Hospitals is not adecuted neighter properly equiped with the necessary machines, medicines, technical and medical equipments for attention.
- Pharmacies at Public Hospital never have all of the medicines that were prescribed by the Doctors, peoble end up spending money buying them at Private Pharmacies.
- Public Hospital do not have enough beds for patients.
- Pulic Hospitals do not have enough ER Rooms for patients that required emergency care.
- ER rooms are  lacking  equipment, ambulances and medical personnel, specialists, paramedics and nurses
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Panama Most Important Medical Care Centers:

Private Medical Care Centers in Panama

- Hospital Punta Paitilla
- Nacional Hospital  (Justo Arosemena Ave, Panama City)
- Punta Pacífica Hospital
- San Fernando Hospital

Public Medical Care Centers in Panama:

- Santo Tomás Hospital (Balboa Ave)
- Hospital del Niño (designed for Kids Attention)
- Policlinics Located along the country.
- Health Care Centers located along the Country
- General Hospital in Bugaba, (Chiriqui)
- Rafael Hernández Hospital (Chiriqui)
-  Materno Infantil José Domingo De Obaldía, Hospital (Located in The province of Chiriquí)
- Rafael Hernández Hospital (City of David)

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