Abstract:
This paper aims to probe deeper into the effects of
privatization on government hospitals especially on its indigent
patients and health workers.
This paper is divided into nine parts. The first part is the
introduction which shows the presentation of the statement of
objectives, review of related literature, research methodology as
well as the significance of the study. The second part discusses the
trends in the privatization of health services. Commercialization
and privatization is discussed in the third part. The privatization
background and rationale and the reasons for privatizing
government hospitals are discussed in Chapters 5 and 6. The
impact of privatization on government hospitals and its effects on
health workers and indigent patients is discussed in Chapter 7.
Chapter 8 shows the struggle against privatization. The final part
is the conclusion.
The researcher was able to conclude that the privatization
of government hospitals brings more death and disease instead of
what it promised to be as "health in the hands of the people."
Privatization of government hospitals breed ill health and the
health workers and the patients - especially the poor and the
peasants - are always at the losing end.
