Leptospirosis treatment costs 6,000 pesos per patient?

Our family driver Benny is a flood victim who used to live beside the Tumana river.  They are temporarily housed in the Marikina sports complex while waiting to be handed out free housing in Sta. Rosa Laguna.  In the meantime they suffer from poor sanitation, mosquitoes and threatened by leptospirosis.

Our driver’s wife took their youngest child and moved in with a relative near Pasig.  Four more children up to age 14 are left with our driver.  He says some of his neighbors had caught the deadly leptospirosis and underwent drug and hospital treatment.

The cost of the anti-leptospirosis drugs (antibiotics) is 3,000 pesos.  And the hospitalization costs 3,000 pesos.  Thankfully, all those he knew who were downed by the suspected leptospirosis survived.

Personally, we are lucky to have an alternative place to stay.  We were also victims of the flood.  But since we do not stay in the flood stricken areas, leptospirosis is not our problem.  But if we did catch leptospirosis, my choice of treatment would be beam ray treatments with Romy Macapagal or Elizabeth Oropesa.  Only some 2,000 pesos for a 4 hour treatment and probably your worries are over.

The good thing about the beam ray is it targets the specific microbes instead of doing broad spectrum killing like what antibiotics do where the beneficial bacterias are also killed.  The beam ray treatments are faster, cheaper, better.  What more can you ask for?

My suggestion for the flood victims who are too poor to move is that they at least boil their water for 5 minutes and sip it as tea.  Stop eating those noodles.