Nice to see this topic continuing... a couple points:
1)"Just paying emergency personnel:: let's assume that the money can be found with taxation or donation (which is a big if...),
a)there are no paramedics in San Pedro that are trained to the standards those posting here would expect. The paramedics in Belize City are trained at a basic EMT level and there are very few. Having these people in San Pedro would mean training them somewhere else (very costly) or bringing them in an paying them North American Wages... expensive and politically difficult re: paying foreigners big bucks
b)paying physicians- there has long been a hesitancy to licensing foreign physicians for fear of them taking over and interfering with the ability of Belizean physicians to earn a living and maintain influence on what is rightly their system. This may explain why it took Dr. Tina 8 years to get a license if in fact she finally has one. This sentiment I can very much understand and has to be treated sensitively. We can't just pop in 10 North American ER docs and let them run and clinic where they bill whatever they want to fund the clinic... not gonna happen politically.
Last time I checked on this issue Dr. Tina still did not have a license for private practice in Belize. This is posted
NOT to be a negative comment about her but to simply point out the difficulty in getting outside doctors licensed for private practice in Belize.
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