I think if you are not a Permanent Resident, and you do not have
private insurance taken out here (I'm from Melbourne), you'll have
to foot the bill. You won't have any medicare unless you are
at least a Permanent Resident or you are from one of the countries
that Australia has some sort of arrangement with with regards to
pension and Medicare (eg. UK, New Zealand).
Bear in mind that costs here can be astronomical if you are a
non-PR and non-citizen. Public hospitals are always short of
beds (and sometimes staff, in which case, they will have empty beds
that they cannot use because it is forbidden to release the beds
until they have sufficient staffing to meet the legal patient :
nurse ratio) but you can always head to private hospitals but there
is, of course, a difference in costs.
If cost is not an issue, there are Midwifery units that tie up
with neighbouring hotels whereby after birth, midwives and/or
nurses are sent to check on mother and baby regularly in the hotels
they are staying in. This gives mother, baby and the entire
family privacy, and it does not feel like a hospital stay, which
improves everyone's mood.
You don't even live here, and you don't even work in the health
sector, and all you do is go around spouting statistics here and
there. I am not interested in digging out statistics to prove
anything to you. I was just interested in giving an
alternative perspective as to why the statistics may be what they
are.
So what if they are just 2.5% of the population? Did it
occur to you that if ONE aboriginal woman gets pregnant six times
in her life, four of which are stillbirths, that will contribute to
the high percentage of infant mortality? Population and
demographics do not tell you anything in this case. You can
only read so much into statistics.
wat are u talking about.
We are talking about why Australia Infant
mortality rate is 100 % HIGHER than SG.
u tell me the reasons of Aborginal(2.5% of population ),drugs
addicts etc
I ask u how many drugs addicts an/or alcoholics in pregnant
ladies.
U did not tell me.So how?
The only explanation is oz health sys need much room for
improvements.
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Oz get abt 21 million population.
Majority of them stay in major cities.
Sydney 4.3 million ,2000 sq km
Melbourne 3.8 m,1600 km sq
Canberra 340,000,1000 km sq
Brisbane 1.8 m,900 lm sq
Perth 1.5 m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population
There are 13.7 million stay in cities of popultaion 300,000 and
above.
I think this group of people shall get medical services not
worse than SG.
But why Australia Infant
mortality rate is 100 % HIGHER
than SG at 4.8 v 2.3 per 1,000 live births?
Can u blame all deaths in distances of homes to hospitals?
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I tell u go to read the stand of oz hospitals.
now tell me the standard in public as well as private
hospitals.
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FYI, SG public hospitals' secrets is here.
let me share with u why SG is lowest in the world.
All the ''public hospitals in SG'' is legally private
owned,tranferred by SG
gavaman but still under support and controlled by gavamna.
This non--civil servants structures make the operation very
flexible!!
For your eyes only-----for babies'
sake,a team is on stand by 24/7
for any abnormal delivery
case.They can reach the delivery mum bed
side in not more than 10 mins.as
fast as RSAF pilot to fly the plane into the sky.
They learn from many sad lessons that docs and nurses could
not
attend complicated cases on time and lost the
babies.Therefore,
they forms a system to assembly all specialists to attend
to complicated and urgent delivery cases.I forget the names of
complication.
i remember the mortality rate of the complication drop at least
half.
There is no secret to provide a better services.Just change of
mind set.
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