Healthcare System

First of all, I would like to start by saying that in my opinion the health service in Chile is quite deficient and leaves much to be desired. Just look at the huge lines that have always existed in the doctor's offices to get an hour for medical service, and not to mention the endless waits when an operation is required, as in the case of my mother who required a fairly simple intervention and had to wait more than 2 years to be called. Even those waits can be much longer and sometimes patients are called for surgery when they are already dead.

Another deficient point related to health, is the practically null concern for people's mental health, nowadays practically all of us have some problem of this type, whether it is anxiety, stress, panic crisis, insomnia, etc. And it is only recently that this problem has begun to become more visible and more weight is beginning to be given to this serious situation.

One way to improve the public health system in general, could be to invest considerably more in infrastructure, medical supplies and professionals to attend to the large number of people who require these services, as this would help to greatly reduce waiting times to obtain decent care.