By Hassan I. Conteh

A patient, Zainab Bangura, not her real name, says going to government hospital for treatment pays a lot.

“You get treated easily with sober tabs by doctors. Though some may ask you to pay for entering charges so expensive except for the lactating mothers who are required to pay a little if they report of their illnesses or their children,” Bangura explained, after she gets treated at Waterloo Government Hospital at Bottom Mango, located at Western Area Rural District.

Ms Bangura encouraged others not to be scared to go to any government healthcare clinic in the country as she trusts the medicines given by the country’s hospitals.

“One thing I love about government hospitals is that they give sober medicines than most private health clinics around you see.”

“I have observed that quite a lot.The medicines prescribed by private clinics and pharmacies are not too good at times,” she said.

The patients last visited the Waterloo community hospital after she fell ill of typhoid malaria just days ago.

Asked about what they are told by nurses and doctors in government’s health facilities, Ms Bangura says they are encouraged quite often by nurses and doctors to be always going for treatment or their children to the government hospitals when they are sick.

“The doctors would usually tell us to report to government hospitals for treatment if a person is sick.”