A Study of the Current Working Conditions of Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Employees and How It Affects the Quality of Services Rendered by the Institution

Abstract

Health is a primary and basic right of every citizen that every state or government is obligated to provide. The Philippine General Hospital, the largest government owned and controlled health institution, is known to be the country’s primary health cave institution. Yearly, thousands of patients flock to the hospital to seek affordable and quality health cave. Aside from this, it also houses hundreds of employees, whose daily needs depend on the wages and compensations they get. The recent trend of privatization of government institutions, contractualization of employees and cost cutting measures of the government in general, bas not just led to a multitude of administrative problems but move importantly to the disadvantage of PGH employees. Many of them complain of long hours of work, low wages and unfair employment policies. As a result, quality of services rendered by the PGH has been greatly affected, considering that it is the workers and not the legislators who really run the hospital. Consequently, health care is not as efficient and accessible as it should be and instead of being a right that everyone enjoys, it bas become another source of profit.