Man shot 6 times waits more than a week for surgery after hospital is overwhelmed by covid

wa post via yahoo ^

[algore]

Joel Valdez isn't in the hospital for covid-19, but he's feeling its effect.

For 10 days, Valdez has been in a hospital bed at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston awaiting surgery after he was shot six times outside a grocery store as an unlucky bystander to a domestic dispute.

"Having broken bones and bullets in me for over a week now, it's a little frustrating," Valdez told KRIV over the weekend.

He tallied his injuries, which include a neck wound and three gunshot wounds to a left shoulder that's in need of surgery: "Everybody is really surprised I'm still in this bed a week later."

Valdez confirmed Monday afternoon he was still awaiting surgery when contacted by The Washington Post, but declined to be interviewed on the record.

[algore]

Maybe he could get better treatment in Mexico?

[bray]

No Habla English Gringo

[smokingfrog]

Having a health insurance policy might help.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Valdez confirmed Monday afternoon he was still awaiting surgery when contacted by The Washington Post,

Okay, I'd like to hear more on how that went down.

[lightman]

Yup...emergency treatment is one thing.

Everything above and beyond is on you, amigo.

[blackdog]

Like the orthodox Hasidim Jews story about Covid in Australia, I find this too to be a false planted story by the ministry of propaganda. Stories do not have to be the truth. They can be embellished or fabricated to steer public behavior. Nothing illegal about it.

[MAGAthon]

another hospital story...in UK:

18 Aug: Daily Mail: ALL NHS hospitals could get tougher guidelines on using ventilators after deaths of THREE Covid patients who were given wrong equipment at make-shift Nightingale in London
Deaths all occurred at Nightingale at the height of the first wave last spring
Staff did not attach vital tubes which prevent build up of mucus in airways
Coroner’s report said variability between machines was ‘extremely confusing’
By CONNOR BOYD and BHVISHYA PATEL
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9901083/NHS-hospitals-tougher-guidelines-using-ventilators-deaths-THREE-Covid-patients.html

[algore]

https://abc13.com/father-joel-valdez-shot-outside-kroger-northwest-houston-shooting-man-after-witnessing-domestic-dispute-violence/10941867/

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I was more curious about how the Post was contacting him in the hospital. Who called who...and why?

[Clay Moore]

Ben Taub is the county hospital near Houston TX. Probably there because he doesn’t have any insurance.

Hospitals are understaffed right now. I know an RR nurse getting double-time plus $1K per 12 hr shift over 36 hrs per week.

[NoLibZone]

Hospitals will soon be firing nurses and medical staff who refuse to be vaccinated.
Soon he’ll wait a few months

[Tacrolimus1mg]

So, he couldn’t be transported to another hospital? If he could sit for ten days in such a state, surely he could make an ambulance ride or Life Flight trip.

[Maris Crane]

Hey,Wapo, just SHUT UP!!!!!!!!

[LukeL]

Since when does COVID cause a backlog in orthopedics and trauma surgery?

[antceecee]

Looks like attack on red state hospital to promote their covidiot storyline.

[HighSierra5]

Were they covid shots he received?

[Bob434]

yeah right- hospitals are over-run with illegals getting their ‘free medical care’

[stanne]

Having no health insurance is red carpet in Texas. No joke

[rb22982]

Less than 15% of beds are COVID. This fear porn has to stop

[mass55th]

Well, this has to be BS, because I never met a man who could put up with pain of any kind whatsoever.