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But there has to be sufficient patient volume to pay staff and to maintain skills. Even if the government pays everyone’s salaries and buys the latest equipment would you want to be operated on be a physician who did his last operation of your type 6 months ago? There simply would not e enough patients for specialists to maintain their skills.

Locals just want a hospital to go to where there are decent waiting room facilities, medicine, supplies, sufficient and competent nurses and doctors, a courteous staff, where the paperwork for the past 3 decades isn't sitting in boxes in the hallways, where the roof paneling isn't falling, where the bathrooms have toilet seats, where the ill are attended to when they arrive. The barebones basics that any public hospital for a regional population of over 150,000 should have.