🇵🇭PRIVATE HOSPITAL, PRIVATE ROOM, PRIVATE PRISON

Hospital stays in another country like the Philippines can be more different than you can possibly imagine.
This includes being denied the right to leave should you not paid your bill. And the longer they keep you in their hospital room the more you are charged, until it becomes your prison.
“Detention” occurs when a person is restrained from leaving the hospital or medical clinic premises for nonpayment of hospital bills or medical expenses in part or in full.
Under DOH Administrative Order 2008-001, or the Implementing Rules and Regulations of R.A. 9349, “detention” of a living patient is further defined when all of the following are present: (a) the patient who is partially or fully recovered has expressed his or her intention to leave the hospital or medical clinic, or the attending physician has issued a discharge order; (b) the patient is not confined in a private room and is financially incapable to settle in part or in full the corresponding hospital bills or medical expenses/ hospitalization expenses; (c) the patient has executed a promissory note covering the unpaid hospital bills or medical expenses/ hospitalization expenses; and (d) the officer or employee of the hospital or medical clinic responsible for releasing the patient has restrained him from leaving the hospital premises.