Sarah Bryden is not allowed to visit 84-year-old Jean Donogue at Basildon Hospital, as patients are only allowed one named visitor because of Covid restrictions.
The 32-year-old Benfleet resident’s sister has been visiting every day – but hospital policy means Ms Bryden cannot see her nan, even on days when her sister does not visit.
Useless, paper-shuffling, heartless bureacrats. If you clapped during Lockdown 1, this is what you were applauding.
But wait, Julia. Maybe you're being too harsh? After all, she can see her grandmother when she recov...
Her grandmother, who was widowed 11 years ago, has been on Florence Nightingale Ward since falling ill two weeks ago two weeks ago. According to Ms Bryden doctors have told the family she “doesn’t have that long and is deteriorating”.
Ah.
Ms Bryden said: “I think it is totally and utterly wrong, why is this policy still in place when Covid rules have been relaxed by the Government?
“The hospital say the only time that I can come up there is when she is on her ‘death bed’, otherwise we can’t go up as a group. It’s ridiculous.”
You say 'ridiculous'. I say...well, no, better not. This is a family blog.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust declined to comment.
Of course they did. They know they can't defend the indefensible.
Once the Covid excuse is gone, it means they have to return to work.
ReplyDeleteApplause should be give when such applause is deserved, not for an NHS that has not just failed Britons during the Pandemic but has failed for many years prior to that.
ReplyDeleteIt's not until one has personal experience of the NHS that the truth begins to emerge. At the time that my parents were spending more time in hospital did I stop thinking highly of the NHS and I am not alone. Perhaps this decline in public confidence is being driven intentionally to soften us up for privatisation in some form.
ReplyDelete"Once the Covid excuse is gone, it means they have to return to work."
ReplyDeleteIt's already gone. They are just clinging to its memory now. Still, we might have monkeypox to worry about soon!
"...but has failed for many years prior to that."
Yes, the writing has long been on the wall, hasn't it?
"Perhaps this decline in public confidence is being driven intentionally to soften us up for privatisation in some form."
I'd welcome that! At least then, I'd stand a chance of being treated like a customer.