Live in peril
You never fool around when it comes to dealing with someone’s health or even in life-or-death situations.
Recently, Cindy Van Doozer posted on her verified Facebook account about the alleged negligence of Roxas Memorial Provincial Hospital (RMPH) nurses and doctors that allegedly led to the death of her father.
Excerpts from her Facebook post:
To the ROXAS CITY MEMORIAL PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL (RMPH) nurses and doctors responsible for neglecting my father’s needs, leading to his tragic passing two days ago, I hope you find peace in your hearts and reflect on the unacceptable treatment you provided. I pray that your families never experience similar neglect.
I witnessed the appalling way your nurses treated my father during a video call. The mockery, gossip, and disregard for his well-being were inexcusable. It’s clear that some of you have become desensitized to the suffering of your patients.
Did you take an oath to harm or disrespect your patients? Did you swear to ignore their pleas for help or administer lethal injections when you’re tired?
The events surrounding my father’s passing will haunt me forever. After administering the fatal injection, your team ignored my mother’s and nephews’ desperate calls for help. They claimed my father was ‘okay’ and ‘fine’ even as he lay lifeless. Only later did a doctor appear, urging my mother to put my father on life support despite knowing he had already succumbed to your negligence.
May this tragedy serve as a wake-up call for your institution to reform and ensure that no family suffers as we have.
I can only hope at this point that this is false because it is heartbreaking, and we do not want anyone to experience this. Once proven that this is true, it is quite disgraceful for RMPH.
There is too much at risk when there is negligence in healthcare work because lives are on the line. Any form of negligence in healthcare is not a simple mistake.
If this unfortunate event were true, we need to ask the doctors and nurses involved: “If this were to happen to someone you love, how would you feel?”
Another healthcare concern is the pettiness of some barangay captains towards their political enemies or non-supporters who are asking for a certificate of indigency to get their Aid in Crisis Situations (AICS).
There are aspiring AICS beneficiaries who come from different municipalities and are confined to a hospital in Roxas. They, or more likely, their caretakers, would try to get the certificate of indigency to get their AICS, but there are those who get rejected because they are not seen as a political ally, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Joerine Tan said via state radio station Radyo Maragtas.
Do these barangay captains really have the time and the audacity to play God when someone else’s health and finances are on the line?
It would be poetic justice if karma served as judge, jury, and executioner towards these petty barangay captains by depriving them of any aid once they are in a similar situation to the person whom they rejected in a biased manner.
