An Unwise Decision: National Medical Care Available for International Patients

By Hsu Hsin I

Since the outbreak of Covid-19 is well-controlled by Central Epidemic Command Center’s (CECC)
epidemic prevention and treatment, CECC office announce that foreign patients are welcome to seek medical care in Taiwan with certain conditions from August 1st, which made our medical personnel appeal to postpone implementation.

Putting our medical personnel in danger in order to cooperate with helping foreign patients is unwise because our personnel cannot take any risk of getting infection during this serious situation. Besides, the medical resources is valuable and limited that it could not afford too many patients. Not only foreigners visit Taiwan for treatment has an impact on health care system, but also residents are worried the transmission would be expanded after foreign patients come.

According to the report, there are 39 increase of confirmed cases within three months in Taiwan, and people presume that the novel coronavirus would spread rapidly and out of controlled if the official insist on provide medical care to foreign patients. As stated above, many people are annoying about the decision, trying to appeal to CECC office stop it.    

Instead of helping people from worldwide, CECC office should try to do more effort on epidemic prevention completely. To be honest, Taiwan better minds our own business before the epidemic ebb.