Dirty Hospitals…..

I agree with what you say Mary. What p/isses me off even more, is that of the hospitals that PASSED the standards , I’ve been in three of them as a patient and let me assure you, the filth and neglect was terrifying; blood and shit up the walls, overflowing waste-product bins , sporadically-changed sheets….my husband had to dress my wounds to prevent them from being infected. It got so bad, I discharged myself just as I was beginning my chemo and radio…and practically crawled back to hospital each day for my treatment.

Administration hasn’t a clue what’s going on. Most of the doctors..certainly the consultants..are oblivious to the conditions on the wards. Half the nurses come straight from college and don’t want to soil themselves with blood and guts nursing; the cleaning is contracted out; the meals are contracted out….bl@@dy staying alive is contracted out! And chriist help you if you’re elderly and require something ludicrous like being fed.

I can honestly say that I am alive today IN SPITE OF the N.H.S. and not because of it…
and I haven’t even touched the tip of the iceberg regarding the horrors that I’ve witnessed
and that I’ve had done to me!!!

It’s obvious to me that Scotland needs more Polish immigrants – they do a great job cleaning!

Just finished watching Kim and Aggie and I wasn’t shocked..it was all such familiar territory. I could tell stories to make a bald man’s hair curl. Try this one for size: Three o’clock in the morning in a godawful ward in the Western Infirmary..I stagger along a corridor to the toilets clutching an open wound with only a loose pad against it…only when poised on the loo, do I notice the handle..the seat..the floor..the walls…..are coated in some other poor soul’s shiit..

I’m put into a terminal side room in the Southern…my husband has to clean someone else’s excrement off the bathroom wall..

Tufty-headed little ladies having to defecate into commodes in the middle of an open ward..

shiiit featured prominently..and none of it my own!!!!

I say let Kim n Aggie loose on all hospitals, let them help us gettin rid of something which can be contained…. and maybe everyone having thoughts of do I practise what I would expect….

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Maybe even an army of Kim n Aggie’s Mary………..it certainly needs something, hospitals in general are a complete disgrace!!

When my ex husband was in hospital last year, and I was going to see him, he said, I know i’m drivin you mad with make sure you use that gel, but I feel better if I know you do. I did too, every time I went in or out, I used the gel provided…………….what the point was tho, iv’e yet to fathom. I watched the domestic one day collecting the plates and cutlery from patients tables. She collected the cutlery from the old gentleman who was in the next bed, he’d eaten his meal (better person than me :wink: ) she looked at his knife and fork, which prior to her coming round, he’d licked clean, and threw them in the tray containing the clean! cutlery, ready to be used again!!!!!

I was mortified!!! Patrick was in there having had a stomach operation! they’d just allowed him to start eating,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I went to the sisters office and reported it but still, we didn’t take any chances. It made all of us paranoid. We used to take food into him, along with CLEAN cutley for him to eat it with.