I am including a photo of the surgery center in Santo Tome to give you an idea of their facilities. They are builiding a new hospital, but I got an in depth tour of the old one that they are still using from my host sister Sylvia who is their accountant.
I was very impressed that medical care is free to everyone no matter what your income is or if you are a native Argentinian or not. People travel for miles to this hospital which employes 300 people, including 50 doctors. Seeing their facility really gave me a great appreciation for how new and clean and well equiped our hospitals are back home - even if they charge too much, they have a lot to offer the patient in the way of medicines and modern equipment.
At this hospital, for example, the maternity ward was a room with 10 beds in it and women of all stages of labor (pre- and post birth) were there with their families all in the same room, no privacy to speak of, but if it's free who can complain?
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