The Reliability Factor: Public vs. Private Services

At my age now, one thing I do know about life is that having money is a good thing. In fact, it’s more than good, it’s great because you get to have access to stress free private services instead of having to stick to public services all the time. Throughout my educational life, I had attended private schools until I got to experience the public side of education in senior high school.

My school was ranked as one of the best girls schools in the country but being there in that moment, I didn’t feel I belonged there . Why because everything was different. In my previous private schools, teachers had time for students and the numbers in the class weren’t huge. Having to sit in a class with over 40 other girls was a new thing to me and i had to adapt quickly. But I eventually got used to it. This experience coupled with my university education has been my longest experience with public institutions and I can tell you that I did enjoy the change but it wasn’t want I expected.

Speaking on behalf of the average Ghanaian, we all wished we had enough money so that we could stop using public services. This is because first off, government owned institutions have the worst of the worst when it comes to employees. Imagine walking into an office and no one minds you. It’s like they’re not there to serve you. And even when you find someone to help you out, they end up tossing you around until you get fed up. This is what actually happened to me today when I visited the Ghana revenue authority for some work.

I don’t even wish to talk about the issue of public hospitals. You see these nurses, just thank your stars if they don’t end up giving you a wrong prescription aside from the fact that they would always be shouting at you like you’re their kid. One thing I’m very happy and thankful to God for is the fact that my family has a personal doctor and we mostly used that growing up. Because I can’t imagine having to visit a public hospital and getting treated like shit after hours of waiting when I can just call my doctor to book an appointment and I’m all set.

Comparing governments institutions to private institutions, they both have their pros and cons. Services rendered by government institutions are way cheaper as compared to private institutions but when it comes to quality , private institutions win. When we talk about good customer services, private institutions wear the crown also because why else would they be charging you this ridiculous amount of money for petty things. And oh, some of these civil servants are most likely to cheat you on a normal day.😂

I for one would always choose private services over public services because I really don’t have the time, patience and energy to deal with all these bitter government employees. Aside things that are solely related to the public sector, in everything I do, I wish to go private. Because why not?

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