San Lazaro Hospital and their rodents

My sister will be spending two weeks at the Cavite Mental Institution. No, she'll not be checking herself in, she'll be there as a volunteer aid. It's actually part of her curriculum to endanger her life from time to time.

There was a time when she has to spend weeks in San Lazaro Hospital in Manila. If you haven't heard of that hospital, it is where those serious infectious diseases are usually treated. Kind of scary, huh? But, then again, she doesn't have any other options but to serve her 'sentence' of weeks assisting nurses and doctors in treating people who didn't know how to properly use condoms.

Sis, having a good heart, became a bit attached to one of their patients (which is not really an advised attitude in her field). The patient is named Tita Daria. Tita Daria has a sexually infected disease, which would require his behind to profusely bleed, his stomach to have these monstrous aching every now and then, some unknown skin rash and lastly, a really bad cough.

Dinner table would be the venue of my sister's litanies about her favorite patient. My part would be the captive audience, listening to the gorry details while inhaling nilaga or tinola. I have to say that Tita Daria's case is really interesting. Pang-Maalaala Mo Kaya. He is a gay-transvestite who used to earn his living via prostitution. Later on, he got this disease. Now, he is bed-ridden and almost non-functioning. If only Tita Daria could have popped out that condom...hay..

And then one night, sister and a colleague of hers were called in to assist a patient. The patient happend to be the Tita Daria, coughing so hard, blood would spurt off his mouth. So, on my sister went to assist, sliding the hand gloves provided by the hospital.

No, Tita Daria didn't die that night. But guess what happened. After the patient coughed blood into them, the colleague discovered that the hospital has rodents. The hospital-provided gloves has these small holes, mice bitten holes probably. The holes were open invitation for the patient's blood to seep into the handglove. The colleague happened to have wounded herself earlier that day.

I'm not really sure what happened into the colleague. I just hope that she is still her healthy self, and that the hospital and their school are helping her with anything that might happen.

This made me thinking, what are rats doing in San Lazaro Hospital? And are there any law or acts provided for medical students? These people has their lilves endangered every time. I just wish there are some solutions if this instances occurs.