MEDIA WATCH: A road monument vs hospitals

hoyporhoy  La Prensa Jan. 25

THE PRIORITIES in infrastructure of recent governments have set aside the National Cancer Institute (ION) and the Hospital del  Niño. (Children’s Hospital).

Although nearly three thousand Panamanians are diagnosed with cancer each year, authorities continue sparing resources that would enable the ION to combat this disease and provide better quality of life for survivors.

The only proposal to date is considered to use the renamed Healthcare City as the site of the new hospital for cancer patients.

For its part, the new Children’s Hospital. regardless of the health of children, must  overcome bureaucratic processes,which  continue to delay this important work

With only half the total cost of the third phase of the coastal strip, we would have had for years these two hospitals and many lives would have been saved or would be very different today.

These are the social costs that politicians ignore and which end with Panamanians rejecting every five years the government of change.