Burma, Yangon, Royal Asia Hospital

So, 2 reasons why I haven't posted for a while.  First of all finding wifi in Myanmar strong enough to make a blog post is extremely testing.  I have a couple of posts lined up but no wifi.  Second, I find myself in hospital with a broken leg, the result of a motorcycle accident in Pyay.  Frightening.  Not the hospital where the staff are excellent but the nature of the accident which I will write about when I get home. I am in the hospital library at the moment using a computer as there is no wifi here at all.  Been here 3 days now, in a temporary pot, and I'm now just waiting for the hospital professor to sign me off with a letter so I can fly home.  In fact, this is what I have been waiting for since day one but no one from the insurance company told me. And I say just, but watch this space. To my mind the whole thing could have been sorted out 48 hours ago had I known. As you can appreciate, communicating with hospital staff is dependent on whether or not they can speak English, and those that can to the level required are in the minority. In saying that, I cannot praise the hospital staff enough. Unfortunately, although the insurers were informed within 2 hours of the accident, no one representing the insurance company has been made any form of contact with either me or the hospital in all the time I have been here.  Basically, my daughter Joanna, who has liaised with the insurers, has been led a merry dance and she and I have essentially had to sort things out ourselves. I don't have anything to compare my situation with in order to know if this is the norm but as an medical insurance experience Jo and I have found it very, very challenging.  The fracture, to the Fibula, requires a small operation and the sooner I get home the sooner it can be carried out. But as I say, it could be a while yet.
Glen x