Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Why are we short of money?!?!

I know i know.... it's been a while... forgive for my disregard to your anticipation.

Here's some food for thought, and imagine this (it's a LONG analogy so be patient):

You have a company which you suspect is running like crap. You decided to call system analysts to oversee the organization.

What is system analysis on a commercial or enterprise level for companies?

A bunch of highly or over qualified people charging you gang-loads to come and see the breakdown of how your system is running. Efficiency, working man power, man hours, the need for more or less man power, points of weakness or errors, blah blah blah. They point out the mistakes in your system, and provide alternative and improved solutions. It's expensive, but very effective on the long run for a more profitable organization.


So you call an overseas company ( because we all know how companies brought from outside are always better than us... But ofcourse! they're blonde with blue eyes! So they MUST be good eh?!), and invite them to come over to analyse your system which you think is going wrong. And because they're brought over they're double paid, at least, since the contractor said that's how much they cost, and pay for their expenses.

Except that (and here's the catch), when you receive their arrival dates into your premises, you work your butt day and night, cleaning every corner, improving everything you can, and organizing and polishing all the shit you have laying around which has been in storage for years since it was bought but never operated. You teach your staff how to speak and behave well, and welcome them with the best food in the best rooms of the premises. Again, with furniture that has never left the storage (LOL, i'm sorry but i'm finding it funny).


They come along, very impressed, and leave within the day convinced that "Dr. M, this is the best God-damn run system we have seen in the Middle East region in years!!!"


Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happened unfortunately a few weeks ago. The Ministry of Health decided to bring overseas system analysts to oversee the operational mode of the public hospitals in Kuwait. They got paid millions, to tell us everything is fine, and then left.

WHO
ARE
WE

KIDDING
WITH?!

A picture speaks for a thousands words... Really? Well i got four thousands speaking the truth. Those are the photos of the male changing room in the Main Operating Theaters department. This room is what seperates people in clothes, from people who can ONLY be in scrubs, scrub shoes, head caps, so that the next room they enter is the operations room. Where we cut people open and hope they live the next day.








4 comments:

Dental said...

mmmmmmmmm.......

madry sha'3ool el 9owar tetkalam 3an ro7ha!!!!!!

hatha ay mostashfa, i hope dentistry in q8 mo chthey ba3ad!!!

Born to be a Surgeon said...

Loool loool loool
if you think THIS is bad, you should get a tour at Amiri Hospital's basement where the Doctor's residence is located. They actually expect us to SLEEP in that freakin place!

O hathee li Kuwait, 9al 3ala el nebi!
LOL (o hathe tha7kat QAHAR) :p

eshda3wa said...

OH MY FREAKY GOD!!

how the hail do ppl stay alive in this place!

law etsawe surgury next to a dumpster itll probably have the same ffect ya3ne elbacteria imsawya 7afla!

Anonymous said...

dude,
welcome to MOH - Kuwait.

i went into the changing room in maternity hospital to change so i can enter the OT for a C-section, and it took me a while to realize that the reason i was uncomfortable in the god-forsaken scrub shoes wasnt only the fact that theyre god-forsaken, but also because there was a dead cockroach inside. ofcourse it was only after i started frantically screaming around the room that the porter person came and asked me what's wrong with me, and why i assumed this was the first time that had happened.

its pathetic.