Are Porn-Funded Hospitals An Acceptable Way To Fundraise?
July 6, 2010 No Comments
We all know that government health departments are constantly cutting funding and worrying people with closures of hospitals and staffing.
What if there was a great way to make money, but it wasn’t exactly legal or morally acceptable? Should they suck it up and deal with the funding cuts or change the rules to make the money?
One British hospital was renting out an unused wing to film companies to make money before 2002, and it was just revealed that they shot a porn film there!
This apparently “was a big-budget affair and generated substantial income for the hospital”.
This was revealed as part of a move to make government funding and accounting more transparent.
The fact that they call it an “incident” that happened under a “predecessor organisation’s management” clearly show that the current management is not happy to have porn-funded hospitals and would rather forget it happened.
What do you think? Were they right to do this even though it doesn’t “contribut[e] to the objectives of the primary care trust”? Even though it’s morally questionable but a good money-maker?
