More Funding For Patients at Home

Nowadays patients are staying less and less in the hospitals. They are discharged from hospitals with IV bags and machines. Patients can even receive chemotherapy and dialysis right in the comfort of their living rooms. Other health care services like Rehab, PT, OT, Speech Therapy and dietary assessment can be done at the patients’ homes. Even patients with the worst post-op infected wounds are now discharged early from the hospitals. Assessment and treatment of their wounds are possible because of the nurses that come to their homes. This present healthcare situation is saving the government a lot of money as the cost of hospitalization is decreasing due to shorter patients' stay in the hospital. It is only right therefore that the government should increase the funding for home care in order to serve better the increasing number of patients who choose to receive services right at their homes.