Gov’t accused of failing dialysis patients at hospital
Opposition legislator Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull has accused the government of neglecting dialysis patients at the Dr D Orlando Smith Hospital, warning that lives are at risk due to a lack of planning and poor management.
Turnbull informed the House of Assembly that the number of residents requiring dialysis has increased, yet the government has failed to expand treatment capacity.
“For the last two years, especially — maybe three, if I go back three years, when — God rest his soul — Honourable Carvin Malone was minister for health, he brought statistics regarding the dialysis patients who are on the machines, and it’s bursting at the seams,” Turnbull stated.
He added that younger residents are now requiring dialysis alongside seniors.
“We have not increased the capacity to serve them,” he explained.
No adult diapers at hospital
Turnbull shared personal accounts of patients from his district who have struggled with accessing basic supplies at the hospital.
“One of my seniors was down there in the hospital and she quarrelled, she quarrelled, she quarrelled. She said, ‘Look what I come to. Them say, once a man, twice a child’, and she said, now, I three times a dog because not even pampers they got for me,” Turnbull recounted.
He insisted the problem lies not with resources but with governance.
“There’s no lack of resources. There’s a lack of management. There’s a lack of a development plan for what we want to do for our people,” he argued.
Dialysis treatment has been a long-standing issue in the territory. Patients and their families have repeatedly raised concerns about machine shortages and service delays at the hospital, with some having to travel abroad for treatment.
Turnbull said the government must show clear intent to address these shortcomings.
“How do we expect to improve the lives of people if we’re not taking into consideration everything that’s going on?” he asked.
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Honestly from what you hear dialysis is a curse upon the hospital finance they say nobody pays for services. Government should be slow to act cause if you aint trying to pay why should your existence extend? Why are you on dialysis? Who’s fault is it that you need the service? Nothing in life is free you must pay to live.
Since the introduction of the NHI, things gone from bad to worst
national health insurance SCHEME yuh deaf? Emphasis on the SCHEME.
While we need to address the needs of those currently on dialysis, perhaps we also need to put some energy into proactive education and treatment to reduce the number of people getting to that stage.
How about people take responsibgility for their health and stop eating shit and living shitty lives? No disrespect to the people that are currently sick as these illnesses can be caused by varying factors. But doesn’t it seem like some level of entitlement that instead of focusing on prevention we are arguing about these treatments that do nothing but prolong the inevitable? Once you are on this machine fully the only alternative is a transplant. Let’s focus on EDUCATION. Walk more, eat more fruits, drink more water, do constant check ups once you hit 35yrs old, take life seriously, limit the alcohol intake, fast, cleanse, these are little things that impact us in a big way. We are fighting the wrong fight! Healthcare is about money and government will go broke dealing with all the scooter accidents, cancer cases, hypertension etc. if we do not get a grip!
These politicians always talking no action. How much Mitch u contribute to Dialysis unit.
nothing new
they literally let a man died in vg cuz the brand new clinic wasn’t opened and staffed properly.
and we still have a ignorant minority who still thinks its our best interest to let them have independence
if they are managing all these schemes and failures while UK looking over them shoulder what will they do when yall finally let them break loose from UK oversight? who knows…but i wont be around to find out. I’ll read it on the news from a different country and shaking my head
I’m convinced that this young man simply likes to hear his own voice. Since being elected 10 years ago he has done nothing but complain. If anyone can name one simple accomplishment by this guy since being elected I would be happy to hear it. He was even a minister for almost a year and nothing.
Ayo fighting for independence
Well what a pretty plight
THE SIDE EFFECTS IN THE MEDICATION THAT THE DOCTORS IS PRESCRIBING FOR THEIR PATIENTS AND NOT TELLING THEM WHAT THEY ARE BEING EXPOSED TO IS WHAT IS CAUSING THE INCREASE IN ALL SORTS OF ILLNESSES THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING ALL OVER THE WORLD NOT JUST HERE ALONE SO WE ARE AT THE MERCY OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AS YOU GET ONE PRO KE UNDER CONTROL A NEXT ONE POPS UP AND THATS HOW THE DOCTORS AND THE PHARMACIST MAKE THEIR MONEY / WHO DEAD ~ DEAD ) COVID IS A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF THE GREEDINESS OF THESE HUMAN ( PREDATORS OPERATES . IF YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM CANNOT FIGHT OFF THE SIDE EFFECTS , THEN YOU WILL CONTRACT ONE OR MIRE OF THE SIDE EFFECTS IN THE MEDICATION YOU THAT WAS PRESCRIBED TO YOU BY YOUR LOVING DOCTOR WITH A SMILE IN THROR FACE AND WILL DIMPLY CGANGE IT AND WILL BE INTRODUCED TO ANOTHER SET OF SIDE EFFECTS AGAIN THEN UOU BECOMES A HUMAN GUINEA PIG UNTILL YOU DIE / CHECK THE LITTLE PAPER IN SIDE THE BOZ FOR YOURSELF AFTER ASKING YOUR DOCTOR IF THE MEDICATION HAS IN ANY SIDE EFFECTS AND MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THEM STRAIGHT IN THEIR EYES
Excuse me? Get your own identity
A lot more young people will end up on dialysis. Many who think they are living healthy are destroying themselves with too much protein because that is what is being told to them is healthy eating.
Government has to prepare for it worsening and the folks who have no empathy for the sick will be sick in due season and their need for care will cause them to want empathy from the healthy. It is the cycle of life, so let’s be more caring about each other.