Let me tell you Ed Propst, you make it sound as if the staff at CHC who take part in delivering your newborn baby were all just being so nice and pampering you because you like to complain and they’re scared of you. You are wrong! It shows how much you appreciated their effort by showing your real color. These fine folks at CHC were like that to you simply, because that’s how they are! They’re the down to earth professionals who are trying hard to get through in the hands of the big world wide economic crunch everyone is experiencing. If anyone wants to talk about CHC, it will be I, for I am one of the most frequent flyers into CHC…14 times in ICU, eight times on life support, and now on hemodialysis. From 2003 until the present, I have nothing to say about CHC except my appreciation beyond my utterance of words and of the feeling of goodness transported from my heart! Except for the shortage of doctors, medically saltless tasting food, and worn out TV sets in the rooms, CHC is still CHC!
Ed you seem to be like siblings of Goro and Tina. Related in one-tract-minded mentality! Stop throwing out garbage if you don’t know how to clean after! Ed, can you tell us how you can prevent an accidental fire that gutted a telephone pole holding main high tension cables? You don’t really care about what is the cause of your five hours of power outage as long as you vent your desperation? And then to disrespectfully enrage yourself asking to draw power from a dignitary’s house? I don’t call that being a radical; I call that being a RAT! TA-TA-TA-TAT!!!
Governor Fitial is a visionary. I liken him to be like that of the late Mr. Joeten that everyone knows. Not in terms of money, but in terms of how they see things ahead of their time. Joeten saw to it that he takes charge on all aspects that can support his business-he has installed a shipping company, wholesale network, and such that all this will come to aid his big store. Then he branches out by supplying all the little moms and pops stores which are now what we can call the CNMI business community. That is a result of good business policy that he helped to install in our life. Gov. Ben Fitial on the other hand, saw it ahead of its time about CHC. As I begin to have a dialogue with him about CHC, I never knew until most recently, that he was always ahead of me with regards to CHC.
Way before anyone first lifted an eyebrow about CHC, Gov. Fitial is already doing his calculation! He asked himself how can CHC be able to serve 12,000 patients? How about you, do you think CHC is able to serve 12,000 patients? Knowing the answer, Gov. Ben Fitial began to look first at what health policy is not working. He recognizes that just the same as what support the business community needs to keep going, he looks at what support the hospital needed. So the governor changed a bad health policy into a good policy that can help support CHC in the bigger perspective. He allowed Medicaid patients through an executive order to avail to private clinics for their health care. Welcome 12,000 Medicaid patients into the world of CNMI health providers. Go to the private clinics where you don’t have to wait that long, and you can be seen by appointment! Your private clinician can then determine if you need hospitalization, other than for emergency needs. Thank you Gov. Ben Fitial for helping CHC thru this program. Now we have more doctors and nurses serving the over 12,000 needy patients whom before, could only go to CHC. No wonder why there is always a shortage of doctors at CHC. Too many patients, for too little a hospital. I am now being cared for at a private clinic, St. Jude Renal Center/Saipan Health Clinic where I go for hemodialysis treatment. This is my way of helping the overcrowded hemo dialysis unit at CHC. Thank you Dr. Aldan for you too, is a health integral visionary. May you keep accepting dialysis patients, and may you expand your St. Jude unit in the future for your unit is now almost at full capacity.
We need more private clinics, especially specialized care like in hemodialysis so we can address and handle the continuing rise in diabetes related illness, and Gov. Ben Fitial pledge to go beyond his call to try to accomplish such an enormous mission. Thank you Gov. Ben Fitial because now, 12,000 patients can go to private clinics, as well as CHC. En fin serafin!
ALEXANDER
“The Colonel” SABLAN
Dandan, Saipan
