Posted on 12/04/2023 5:24:45 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
This is tragic.
A 91-year-old dementia sufferer died after foreign care staff at a nursing home in England were unable to communicate with emergency operators.
Barbara Rymell died after she fell and got trapped under a stairlift at the Ashley House Residential home in Somerset. The two care staffers who were Romanian and Indian, were unable to tell emergency responders about the victim’s condition because they don’t speak English.
According to The Telegraph, the foreign caregivers didn’t know the difference between “the patient being “alive” and “alert”, or “breathing” and “bleeding.”
“Their lack of English “severely hampered” the call handler’s response and made a “meaningful” assessment of Mrs Rymell’s condition “virtually impossible”, the coroner said,” according to The Telegraph.
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Thanks for the insights.
Do elderly have to pay, or is it just government-funded "privatization."
It is a mixture, a lot is paid for by the patients themselves, there is some that is NHS/local government funded, I don’t know the criteria for getting it paid for.
The correct answer was to get to the ER, which was 90 miles away, faster to drive there.
Merely drinking a glass of water could have been fatal, which was given by the local ER 9 miles away. I needed an ambulance once, it took them 45 minutes to get to our home because they got lost. When they got here they had a problem getting me out the door and down the stairs. The cart they had me on collapsed to the ground when it bumped into the ambulance. On the way to the ER one of the ambulance attendants noticed my heart rate was near 40 (normal for me) and thought I was croaking. She tried to give me some sort of injection to revive me but could not figure out how to get the needle into the top of my hand.
I’m not making this up.
the correct emergency number was not dialed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU&t=3s&ab_channel=TheITCrowd
011 8999-88199-9119725-3
That’s the part that surprised me. They actually had the bad luck of getting a call handler that COULD speak English?
+1.
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