Lets help the people of Iraq

Yea.. CIMA! It's like a five star hotel without the works of art on the walls.

Excellent treatment and they seem to have plently modern equipment and resources.

PS And a nice stock of morphine - amazing stuff!

WarChild:

You prob know already - there are fair numbers of people who fly here to Costa Rica for medication attention (and the usual tit lift stuff). Dunno what it's like in Canada, but the cost here is a fraction of that in the US - tho some of the clinics are actually owned by US corps.

They seem to specialise in fairly major surgery - heart-related blah - and last I looked the cost of a "sample" heart op was around 20-25% of the same in the US. Same heart valve, same qualified docs and staff.

You know that to get treated at Cima you have to put money down when you check in, that's what that $800 was likely for, the deposit. That's what they asked my buddy for when he was getting radiation treatement there. Can't pay? Clinica Biblica for you.

Another story, there's a Banco San Jose in Escazu, sort of halfway between El Cruce San Rafeal and Multi Plaza. They have a rock garden in front of large windows in the front, and a Tico had been cleaning the windows on a ladder and obviously fallen. He was unconcious and by the angle of things, I think he probably broke his back in the fall. In any case he was in rough shape. Right across the street, two guys were standing in front of an ambulance doing nothing. I asked the bank employees who were trying with no success to help this poor guy why the Ambulance was just sitting there. Turns out, that was a private ambulance. No insurance or money? You wait for the public one, a great deal longer.

do u trust it>

Whoever has donated post how much.

I did hahaha163;1000
Webby has a driect debit
Kilotoons did $300

Ok this isnt the best fund raiser and I didnt think it would be but atleast there is something there. Come on people just do $100. If you do I will add your paysites to two link lists I own for a permanent link for life without a ref code. Between the two sites they do 100k of hits per day. I cant say how much traffic you will get but you will make your money back.

Sheesh... yea... there are two sides!

What is Clinica Biblica? Thought that was also a fee-paying hospital? Sounds not - better stick with CIMA

How's your maid's son doing? Don't sound good when she is looking for $$'s to pay for his morphine - or is that a scam?

Clinica Biblica is a public hospital in San Jose. It's, well, not the nicest let's say.

I'm not sure how her son is doing. You know how these people are. She always needs money for something or another, I just happened to bite on this one.

Typical short sighted behavior of the poor. You know the Social Security/medical payment is $35 per person per month in Costa Rica. She has more children than she can afford to insure, so she doesn't insure any of them. Poor kids.

Dammit.. yea, - I'd stand for giving her a bit of support anyways. The kids ain't to blame.

and i'll second that!

OK... Let's try this question.

What exactly have you done to help the starving people in your country?

Do you even know any?

Don't bother to respond BTW - it would mean nothing.

He has done loads. He is single handly rebuilding New Orleans, although I here BadDog is helping him!