I had to be pushy to hospitalise into one of REALLY good Moscow clinics for free...
(Well, mostly for free. Before coming here, I had to make several medical analysis and procedures for money, because making free analogues of them would require tooo long waiting.
I already had to plan surgery in 3 weeks from advance, because of queue in the hospital itself, but if I would stay in queue for free analysis and procedures, too, my treatment would delay for 2-4 weeks more... Yet, it's fine. The most important is, that I obtained the surgery itself (the most costy thing) for free).
My hospital ward looks like a dormitory room, but is white in color:
The ward is divided on two blocks, each block is populated by two patients (my neighbor is out of here now). Each ward (with 4 patients in total) has its own shower and toilet.
This clinic belongs to private medical company, but from some point they made a contract with a government to give a quota for some free treatment as well. So if you're pushy enough to get there and also are patient enough to wait for 2-3 weeks, you can get there for free. But, again, since it's founded by private company, it's significantly better than average government free clinic! That's the trick
Of course, it provides a lot of paid services, too. For example, if you don't use government quotas and pay for yourself by your own, you will be hospitalised for a surgery much quicker (without standing in queue). You can also buy luxury hospital ward for money (it looks like a hotel room, and only one person lives in each ward of that kind). But for me, mine looks fine enough (I lived in the dormitory for 8 years and don't care about other ppl around if they don't annoy me).
There is also a cafe and medical shop with very expensive goods, probably, targeted on rich patients.
For comparison - Here is how the hospital wards in free clinic of my hometown look like:
And here is an example, how one overpopulated free clinic in some other Russian town looks like:
It's good to live in Moscow...
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