Hospital for Animals in Panama: Where Are the Priorities?

The author criticizes the Panamanian government for building a hospital for animals while state medical facilities are in disrepair and there is a shortage of medicine for people. The article compares the current situation to the policies of Omar Torrijos, who cared for the people.


The current government seems more interested in animals than in people. We are hitting rock bottom and don't want to realize it. Omar Torrijos was concerned with developing the countryside and poor communities through literacy, opening roads and highways, and planting schools and health centers. Let's remember that in Panama, construction is the main source of debt, overpricing, and bribes. While the Susana Jones Hospital, in the district of San Miguelito, has a dialysis room that is a sewer and there are other hospitals whose facilities are about to fall apart, Mulino announces the construction of a multi-million dollar hospital for pets. Are pets more important than human beings? Definitely, something is wrong with the public investment system. In the operation described, social justice and the comprehensive development of the people are forgotten, just as General Omar Torrijos Herrera exposed, emphasized, and promoted it. It is obvious that something doesn't add up in the controversial official project. The above is comparable to a mill placed against the people. The Führer did worse things to humans, but among humans, he did not put animals before humans. Fortunately, there are some deputies with a fresh mind and humanistic feelings. Figures from the ruling party lay the first stone in the controversial Hospital. By Victoriano Rodríguez Santos, Economist, educator, Master in Human Resources. True pity is knowing that we have an Executive branch that prefers a Hospital for Animals before improving the facilities of the National Oncology Hospital where people die every day. Not even in Hitler's government was anything like this known. While its blades cut the wind of hope for humans, we all suffocate more and more. Omar said: 'One cannot forget the humiliation, discrimination, and blood of the martyrs and heroes who gave their lives for a free and sovereign nation.' I am the son of Juana. God save you, Panama! We hope that everyone will analyze what the benefit for the country is, even if they have to fight against squanderers of the Public Thing or crawling dogs, faithful or unfaithful. There are no medicines for Panamanians, but animals will have them.