Crazy! This hospital let the 38 patients in pain & die of hunger

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Who says developed countries always have quality healthcare services to patients. In fact, there are hospital patients in the UK were abandoned and left to die of hunger. Unmitigated, there are 38 patients who are victims. Ulcers is revealed through a report on unannounced inspections of 100 hospitals in the UK. There are 2 hospitals were heavily criticized for incompetence in handling patients, the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch and Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich.

The statistical results show that the death rate in hospitals run by Worcestershire NHS Trust, 10 percent higher than the national average in 2010 to 2011. That is, there are 239 more deaths than expected. Alexandra Hospital is one of the hospital run Worcestershire and ranking the worst. Some of the families of patients who are victims then reported the case to the patient experienced UK Department of Health.

The hospital was asked to pay compensation amounting to 410 thousand poundstarling or approximately USD 6.38 billion over 38 case. Among the patients, there were 5 people who are still alive, while the rest are dead so that compensation is given to relatives. The biggest compensation is given as 22,500 pounds, or approximately USD 350 million. Most of the compensation awarded is equal to 10,000 pounds, or about USD 156 million per patient.

"The failure of the treatment we found horrible, vulnerable patients left to starve and thirst to drink placed out of reach, people shouting ignored and allowed to sit on the stool by the nurse," said one lawyer patient, Emma Jones, as reported by the Telegraph , Wednesday (26/12/2012).

This terrible case happened many years, from 2002 to 2011. One of the most severe cases is to let the 84-year-old man died of starvation after being treated in hospital for 2 months. There are also families of patients who described how patients were left hungry because the nurse put a tray of food beyond the reach of his hand.

A son of former patients told how her mother died after not bathing for 11 weeks and given up hard drugs can not talk. Family of a 35-year-old male patient also tells the nurse does not know how to provide food through a feeding tube.

There is also a pensioner who was left screaming in pain as his ribs broken in a fall. A patient's daughter tells how his father left to starve because the nurses casually take unfinished food eaten. There is also a grandmother who became permanently paralyzed because doctors failed to detect the presence of a hip fracture.

"I am disgusted and shocked to read reports of what happened to the patients and their families. I know that most of the staff of the Department of Health, including many at the Alexandra Hospital, will be surprised to hear these stories. I want to support them to make sure this awful incident not repeated, "said Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of the Department of Health.

Source:  Telegraph