The public health

The public health is a issue social in some countries of Latin America and this problem has been reflected in the Covid-19 pandemic. In countries like Colombia, Perú, the public health simply could dont with so much people, the hospitals bring down its activity for shortage of personnel, stretcher, suplies, for what the people died in the hallway of the hospital or in the street waiting for their moment to be attend.

Without going so far, this issue social is highly criticized in our contry. A case very similar to aforementioned countries occured in the San José hospital, in the commune of Independencia. Where the people reported scarity of stretcher and oxigen bombs.

Chile has a strongly deficient situation of doctor and nurses, hospital beds and generic drugs, as revealed by the OECD data: compared to the member countries of that organization, Chile shows a lower number of doctors than the average of the other countries fewer nurses and lower rate of hospital beds the percentage of generic drugs on the market is 30% in Chile and 75% in OECD countries.

Besides, out-of-pocket spending on Health is high in Chile, among OECD countries, households are directly responsible for more than 20% of health spending on average, which is equivalent to about $ 700 per person, Chile exceeds this average by 15.1%, becoming one of the countries with the highest user expenses.