| Re: The state of South African hospitals today. . . [boodskap #65730] |
Do, 29 Augustus 2002 06:10  |
Annette
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Menslike ou foutjie Frikkie:))
Eergister in die koerant hier - hoe Tygerberg en Groote Schuur bedel om
toerusting te kan bekom.
Annette
"Frikkie Potgieter" skryf in boodskap news:3d6dae9f.1913329@newshost.freemail.absa.co.za...
> The state of South African hospitals today. . .
>
> And this from the country that under "evil" apartheid had such a fine
> healthcare system that they were able to do the world's first heart
> transplant . . . how the fall has been great. . .
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> http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/EasternCape/0,1113 ,2-7-836_124
> 8414,00.html
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> 27/08/2002 22:18 - (SA)
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> Heart patient dies while nurses 'catch some sleep'
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> Anneline Muller
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> Port Elizabeth - A heart patient died here in the Livingstone
> Hospital,
> while nursing staff were allegedly asleep in their chairs.
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> Marie Syphus of Algoa Park in Port Elizabeth believes that the life of
> her life-long friend, Clive Desmond Hansen (48), could have been saved
> had personnel not been so "lax".
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> Hansen was rushed to the Livingstone Hospital on Tuesday morning,
> August
> 13, after having had three minor heart attacks the previous couple of
> days and a massive one that morning.
>
> Syphus, who had lived with him for the past 20 years, said his family
> doctor had referred him to the intensive-care unit.
>
> Syphus said Hansen was only helped at the hospital at 15:00, and
> admitted to the ward for diabetic patients, without a heart monitor.
>
> "We did not see a doctor that entire day and night. The staff nurse
> gave
> him a sedative. They administered a Voltaren injection to him later
> that
> evening." He was treated for chest pains, she said.
>
> The next day, his medication was changed to half a Disprin a day and
> an
> injection that would help to dilute his blood.
>
> Syphus said the nurse handed Hansen an injection. She said it was
> expected of him to administer the injection himself.
>
> "There is an open refuse bin filled with used needles to one side. Any
> child who accompanies visitors can pick it up and be accidentally
> pricked."
>
> Syphus said plates of food were simply left next to patients and added
> that the staff did not want her to spend the night there.
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> "Most of the patients cannot eat by themselves, they cannot even sit
> up
> straight on their own. There is nobody to help them."
>
> She apparently even fed other patients in the ward.
>
> "Plastic soft drink bottles are given to male patients for purposes of
> urination. One boy's bottle - still filled with urine - was handed to
> another man for use. Conditions are filthy," Syphus said.
>
> "A man (21) fell off his bed on the Wednesday night, he had had a
> stroke. They arrived only after Clive started banging against his
> bedside cabinet and shouted," she said.
>
> Syphus said they had pleaded with the hospital to transfer Hansen to
> the
> provincial hospital but their pleas fell on deaf ears.
>
> "I again pleaded with the hospital on Friday to spend the night. I
> offered to make beds and assist with anything else in the ward," she
> said. They consented. She said Hansen's bed was not made once while he
> was there.
>
> "A sister came to take Clive's blood pressure by 20:00. It was 80 over
> 60, which was dangerous, she said.
>
> "I was very worried. I kept asking: 'Darling, are you all right?' No
> doctor came to check on him," Syphus said.
>
> "By 03:00 on the Saturday, Clive started shaking and his eyes turned
> in
> his head. He was ice cold. I called, but no one came. I went to knock
> on
> the nurses' office window and then ran to the other side, where I
> found
> them asleep in chairs. A doctor was casually approaching after they
> had
> phoned her. Clive had in the meantime died.
>
> "I am certain that he would have lived had he received the correct
> attention and treatment. No one took any notice of our requests. Clive
> was a good person and would have done anything for his fellow human
> beings," Syphus related.
>
> She said she was not going to lay a charge.
>
> The hospital did not want to comment on Tuesday, as staff members
> feared
> that they would lose their jobs if they talked to the media.
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| Re: The state of South African hospitals today. . . [boodskap #65753 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #65730] |
Do, 29 Augustus 2002 12:50  |
Threeships Mcduck
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:10:23 +0200, "Annette"
served the following to the group:
> Menslike ou foutjie Frikkie:))
> Eergister in die koerant hier - hoe Tygerberg en Groote Schuur bedel om
> toerusting te kan bekom.
> Annette
>
natuurlik,almal het tog die reg om `n bietjie te slaap
Threeships Mcduck
www.mothership.co.za
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| Re: The state of South African hospitals today. . . [boodskap #65755 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #65753] |
Do, 29 Augustus 2002 13:40 |
Annette
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Buitendien is slaap, net soos gaap, vreeslik aansteeklik.
As almal rondom jou slaap is dit maar moeilik om wakker te bly.
Dit is hoekom ek so baie bewondering het vir die mense wat by lykshuise en
begrafnisondernemers kan werk:)
Annette
"Threeships Mcduck" skryf in boodskap news:r36smucakqqgdk5ucbtor8adl09kl8e4a6@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:10:23 +0200, "Annette"
> served the following to the group:
>
>> Menslike ou foutjie Frikkie:))
>> Eergister in die koerant hier - hoe Tygerberg en Groote Schuur bedel om
>> toerusting te kan bekom.
>> Annette
>>
>
> natuurlik,almal het tog die reg om `n bietjie te slaap
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>
>
> Threeships Mcduck
> www.mothership.co.za
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| Re: The state of South African hospitals today. . . [boodskap #65780 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #65730] |
Vr, 30 Augustus 2002 07:13 |
Max[1]
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10% het agteruitgegaan, 90% vooruit.
Myns insiens, nie sleg nie...
SA moet ophou om vir elke snotneus na die dokters toe te hardloop, dan
sal hulle (dokters) meer tyd hê om na die mense wie regtig siek is om
te sien.
Kan jy byhou by 'n nursie? As jy dink jy kan, dink ek nie dat jy weet
hoe hard hulle werk nie...
Jy kan nie oor een fout (en dit wás 'n fout) die hele SA
hospitaalstelsel afkraak nie.
Petjie af vir die nursies!
Max____________________________________________________
rsa...@intekom.co.za (Frikkie Potgieter) skryf in boodskap news:...
> The state of South African hospitals today. . .
>
> And this from the country that under "evil" apartheid had such a fine
> healthcare system that they were able to do the world's first heart
> transplant . . . how the fall has been great. . .
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