Concord Hospital in Sydney has admitted that they did neglect an elderly, ill man, and the New South Wales government is once again feeling the heat over healthcare standards.
Cut with WARNING, for horrific negligence-inflicted injury to a person with a disability.
I might just put in warning space too.
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I can hardly type this. The ABC and the SMH report that an elderly man, admitted with heart disease and pneumonia, was left on a bedpan.
For what looks to be DAYS.
How many hours, how many days? Nobody knows. Which makes it blatantly obvious that this man wasn’t being observed, washed, turned, pressure-cared, given fresh sheets, or bothered with at all.
He developed severe infections and fist-sized necrotic pressure sores on his buttocks and spine, which have required two operations so far.
So can the people who live in sparklypoo la-la land now see that we don’t look after people with disabilities in Australia? That they don’t always get offered every opportunity to live safe, healthy, interesting, enriched, engaged lives in the community? That they are, in fact, warehoused, neglected, and abused to within an inch of their lives (or further)? The TAB population only ever hears about the extremes – the man left on a bedpan to rot, the man having his ears chewed by rodents. How many other less lurid cases are there out there that don’t make the papers?Similar Posts:
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