I am going to post this again, as I don't think anyone read it the last three times I have posted it. Our VHA rep for our village told us at a meeting that he had been told that because it was not possible to get an application approved for another hospital in this area (having to do with new laws) that plans were now to add on to the existing hospital and hopes were expressed that this might lure some competent medical people who would like to work at a larger facility.
I ask all of you the question that I cannot find an answer to.
How does any facility that can function for nine months with a certain population meet the needs of a hugely enlarged population for three months out of the year and that population being for lack of better words in "vacation mode" i.e. they don't have a doctor here and will let small issues go until they become big issues rather than do what the general population does and consult their local physician and stop a potentially serious health isssue from becoming an emergency?
The restaurants can hire more workers part time, but medical personnel are by defininition not so "portable" and "available".
We can rant and we can rave and we can anguish and we can protest, but who in this world can give us an answer. A bigger hospital can and will be built but where are the medical personnel coming from for those three months?
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