Hospital wards

The Australian public was shocked last week after a woman miscarriaged in a hospital toilet without any medical assistance for more than two hours. An inquest into this matter revealed that the Royal North Shore hospital where this incident happened did indeed suffer from some sort of mismanagement. Budgets were cut just to give a false impression of a performance boost. This makes me think, public hospitals here in NSW are just as standard as in Indonesia. A couple of days ago i went to visit a friend who needed to stay at Prince of Wales hospital Randwick, because her trombosit level went dangerously low. The ward that she was staying in was no different than the wards in Sardjito hospital back in Yogyakarta. All are standard, clean, tidy, but not too fancy. I even think that in some parts of the hospital, Sardjito is a bit more sophisticated, like the secured doors in one of its new building. And one more thing. They all smell alike. A mixture of pine o'clean and medicines, kinda hard to explain. ;-)