Health Care in eNorway – What happened?
Day 288, 14:03
•
Published in Norway 
•
by
•
by Cirno
Intro
I was reading the Watchful Eye, and their article «Comprehensive review of state matters», and it got me thinking. Lauri Relander is complaining about the bad healthcare situation in both eRussia and eFinland, stating the facts that 66% of the Finnish cities are without a hospital, and 42% of eRussia are missing the basic healthcare. That means, 34% of eFinland is covered, and so is 58% of eRussia. Where did the hospitals come from? Did the Finns and Russians build them? And how come the coverage in eNorway is at an impressive 100%?
I'm certainly not old enough to know the history, so I head off to find someone who was here from the start. On the #eRepublik IRC channel at Efnet, I meet Forconin, who is nice enough to have a chat with me.
Forconin has been a member of eRepublik since January 03, and knows quite a bit about the history.
How was eNorway doing by itself?
I start out by asking him about the situation in eNorway before the warfare started. He tells me that Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen had Q3 hospitals (which was the highest quality at the time), Svalbard didn't have any hospitals and the rest of the cities had Q1/2 hospitals. That means eNorway had a stunning 83% health care coverage before the war even started! Surely, the Norwegians were fit to fight!
How about eFinland?
But how was the situation with our dear Finnish neighbours? From what Forconin can remember they had a few hospitals, but he is not certain. I better find some of the good old Finns to ask. While waiting for the Finns to come online, I did a little research, and it seems like 3 out of 6 Finnish cities has Q1 hospital or above, and if my mathematics skills from primary school still serves me right, that's a 50% coverage, not 34% as Watchful Eye stated.
After an hour wait, I manage to get hold of the President himself, InuNova is kind enough to let me get some of his valuable time. He confirms that eFinland had 2 hospitals, or 34% coverage at the time of the invasion.
That means you have had an increase of 16%, sadly, that only counts for 1 hospital.
And eRussia?
While I'm at it, I might just as well try to find out how eRussia was doing. The good old HateBot was idling at IRC as well. He was in a hurry, but was able to tell me that low population never made them able to mass produce hospitals. At the time of the Norwegian invasion, they had two Q1 hospitals, that is 16% coverage, of the most basic hospital. According to the Watchful Eye, eRussia now has a 58% coverage, with higher quality hospitals. That is an increase of 42% while being under the Norwegian Empire.
Why such an high increase in eRussia and not in eFinland?
While eRussia has experienced a 42% increase in hospitals, eFinland have only had a 16% increase under the command of the Norwegian Empire, why is that?
Is the hospitals strategicly placed, in case someone went to war against eNorway? Or is this based on city population? Did the old congress simply hate the Finns? We have to get to the bottom of this!
To find out, I'll have to take another talk with Forconin.
Forconin quickly assure me that there is hospitals in stock, and that they will be placed out in the regions once Oddgeir gets up and running again. I'm still curious about how it was decided who should get hospitals first, and asks him if there were any criterias at all.
His reply is prompt, the biggest first. So it was all about population, and not nationality. That's a relief. (I had a short talk with Oddgeir to confirm the facts presented by Forconin.)
Conclusion
All in all, the healthcare service in the the oppressed countries are far better today then they were before they were forced to join the Norwegian Empire. And yet, a few of them has the balls to complain about not having as many hospitals as the old eNorway regions, while in fact, eNorway had all but 1 of these hospitals before the invasions started.
We still have a long way to go, and I rest assured that the new congress will keep up the good work and strengthen our empire.
Now I'm only left with one question, did the Norwegian Empire really hurt you as bad as you make it sound?
I was reading the Watchful Eye, and their article «Comprehensive review of state matters», and it got me thinking. Lauri Relander is complaining about the bad healthcare situation in both eRussia and eFinland, stating the facts that 66% of the Finnish cities are without a hospital, and 42% of eRussia are missing the basic healthcare. That means, 34% of eFinland is covered, and so is 58% of eRussia. Where did the hospitals come from? Did the Finns and Russians build them? And how come the coverage in eNorway is at an impressive 100%?
I'm certainly not old enough to know the history, so I head off to find someone who was here from the start. On the #eRepublik IRC channel at Efnet, I meet Forconin, who is nice enough to have a chat with me.
Forconin has been a member of eRepublik since January 03, and knows quite a bit about the history.
How was eNorway doing by itself?
I start out by asking him about the situation in eNorway before the warfare started. He tells me that Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen had Q3 hospitals (which was the highest quality at the time), Svalbard didn't have any hospitals and the rest of the cities had Q1/2 hospitals. That means eNorway had a stunning 83% health care coverage before the war even started! Surely, the Norwegians were fit to fight!
How about eFinland?
But how was the situation with our dear Finnish neighbours? From what Forconin can remember they had a few hospitals, but he is not certain. I better find some of the good old Finns to ask. While waiting for the Finns to come online, I did a little research, and it seems like 3 out of 6 Finnish cities has Q1 hospital or above, and if my mathematics skills from primary school still serves me right, that's a 50% coverage, not 34% as Watchful Eye stated.
After an hour wait, I manage to get hold of the President himself, InuNova is kind enough to let me get some of his valuable time. He confirms that eFinland had 2 hospitals, or 34% coverage at the time of the invasion.
That means you have had an increase of 16%, sadly, that only counts for 1 hospital.
And eRussia?
While I'm at it, I might just as well try to find out how eRussia was doing. The good old HateBot was idling at IRC as well. He was in a hurry, but was able to tell me that low population never made them able to mass produce hospitals. At the time of the Norwegian invasion, they had two Q1 hospitals, that is 16% coverage, of the most basic hospital. According to the Watchful Eye, eRussia now has a 58% coverage, with higher quality hospitals. That is an increase of 42% while being under the Norwegian Empire.
Why such an high increase in eRussia and not in eFinland?
While eRussia has experienced a 42% increase in hospitals, eFinland have only had a 16% increase under the command of the Norwegian Empire, why is that?
Is the hospitals strategicly placed, in case someone went to war against eNorway? Or is this based on city population? Did the old congress simply hate the Finns? We have to get to the bottom of this!
To find out, I'll have to take another talk with Forconin.
Forconin quickly assure me that there is hospitals in stock, and that they will be placed out in the regions once Oddgeir gets up and running again. I'm still curious about how it was decided who should get hospitals first, and asks him if there were any criterias at all.
His reply is prompt, the biggest first. So it was all about population, and not nationality. That's a relief. (I had a short talk with Oddgeir to confirm the facts presented by Forconin.)
Conclusion
All in all, the healthcare service in the the oppressed countries are far better today then they were before they were forced to join the Norwegian Empire. And yet, a few of them has the balls to complain about not having as many hospitals as the old eNorway regions, while in fact, eNorway had all but 1 of these hospitals before the invasions started.
We still have a long way to go, and I rest assured that the new congress will keep up the good work and strengthen our empire.
Now I'm only left with one question, did the Norwegian Empire really hurt you as bad as you make it sound?
Facebook
Twitter
Discord
Comments
Forgot to list my sources, so here they are:
http://wiki.erepublik.com
http://www.erepublik.com/country-37.html
Forconin
Oddgeir/Dolf
HateBot
InuNova
😁 Thanks to all of you.
a very good article. 😁, it is time to get the new hospitals out in the contury
Lots of Kudos coming here. Well written article and you put some effort on it. It shows.
But answer on the final question? Hmmm. How to explain finnish mental to a non-finn...
Actually we have a real life sample for this: Viipuri or Vyborg in Russia. It\'s a Russian city. Has been over 60 years. But still in Finland we dream the day when it will be free. We know that it won\'t happen in our lifetime. But still, we dream on it. I\'m sorry, but we are nationalists from birth to death. We are it so badly that we can\'t even apply to NAto. It\'s a wonder that we are in EU. Are you getting this? And now when we have this game and people talk about occupation of Finland and plaa plaa plaa... We would like to do it ourselves in our own country. Even if it would go down to drain, which I doupt wíth this population. And finally: when you say Norweigan Empire, we finns lost our focus at once. Don\'t use that word. We are that stubborn. Would you please use different name, forget the Empire, forget the Norweigan Empire... There is not single one Empire in mankinds history that would have last. Doesn\'t that tell you something?
But the Article was good. I enjoyed it a lot.
I think, you\'re right that the economical situation in Finland is surely significantly better now in eNorway, than it was while it was still independent. Wonder where I know this, even when this is my 4th day in game?
It was back in April. That\'s almost 5 months of time to build. Can you honestly claim Finns couldn\'t had build these hospitals on their own in that time?
As far as i know the only company in eNorway that produces hospitals is norwegian 😕
Picardo, The hospital company is goverment owned, and doesn\'t make any money, its fincanced by the state do give out free hospitals to the regions.
BaronFIN, I\'m sorry for the terms I used, I had actually not heard it before some Finns started using it in the media. I\'ll stick to the official name from now on.
Kesper, You most likely could, I was just trying to find a contrast to what other medias are saying about eNorway totally ignoring the Finns.
Very good article. I enjoyed reading it 🙂
I think it was well written as well, but you could\'ve shortened it a bit 🙂
what a fine article.But if it goes by population,Finlands regions should be next to have new hospitals
If we were left alone, we could have built those or more hospitals in eRussia. We want independence because we were starting a socialist economy when the war started. WE don\'t care for the norwegian empire, we want to govern ourselves freely and not be vassals to the norwegian burgeoisie.
We fought for that in eRussia, and we will fight again. And now we have our finnish brothers to help us.
Alijohtaja, Finland got a new Q4 hospital right after I finished the article yesterday, and I belive they are getting one more today.
Che, I don\'t doubt that, I\'m just trying to look at the bright side of life, instead of convincing everyone that norwegians are the devils.. (That should mean eNorway was hell, but i can assure you, we\'re freezing our buts off during the winters!)
as the previous minister of health, i tried to get in touch with some mayors of differnet finnish and russians cities, but that was a lot harder than i first thought (especially since my computer died when they started responding) so if you want to, i\'m partially to blame 🙂
They obviously want us all to die of horrible diseases
[/sarcasm]
Cirno, about your basic math. Do never forget the fact, that when there is more coverage (higher % of the whole area), one more hospital doesn\'t mean much in percentage. BUT! In the case of eRussia, where they had like 2 hospitals, increasing one will increase the coverage by... err, if I can calculate properly, 33%. Where 2 more is whopping 50% increase - so, if this is the way it goes, 3 hospitals count for over 60%... So that\'s why eRussia has had \"more coverage\" - or, that is how I understand it at least.
And that is a confirmed fact, that the new coming hospitals are served on basis \"biggest first\" - because those are the places that needs to be defended more than a city with 1 population... I think you get the point.
I am sure, that if there were war in sight, the priorities would propably be more on the lines \"what\'s closest on the enemy\" would be served first.
I just thought to give you my few cents from my congressman point of view.
Aquatica,
World News Network,
Congressman
Aquatica: No, if there would have been war, a hospital is always needed where most of the people are, so that as many soliders as possible can regain wellness, and get back fighting immediately..
And just to add, if we only cared about suppressing eFinland and eRussia, to keep control of the countries, we would be better off making sure they didn\'t get any hospitals that they might use against us later on.
Either way, I just wanted to say that the previous congress wasn\'t being unfair to you.