The Health care System |
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 One of the first
things that you will be greeted with is a requirement
to take a tuberculosis test. The fact that you have
been immunised in another country cuts no ice. It ain't
no big shakes for you but if like me you have a number
of small children this is quite a headache. So you have
to present yourself to the local Hospital which makes
an appointment for you to come back and take the tests.
You then have to come back a third time to have the
results presented to you. I assume that in the meantime
it is quite all right to walk around infecting the locals
with TB if you actually did have it. In the end each
member of the family is presented with a certificate
which no one thereafter EVER wants to see.
The Hospital system in Bergen gets a mixed review as I can only base it on experience. There is an emergency hospital, a bit like the A&E in England. They're very good and efficient. My 3 year old girl needed some urine tests done and they did that and had the results back in my sweating hang inside 15 minutes of having walked through the door. The main hospital I can't comment on from an adult's perspective as none of us had cause to use it but the children's wards and facilities were excellent. The staff were friendly and helpful. |
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