Posted on 12/04/2023 5:24:45 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
This is tragic.
A 91-year-old dementia sufferer died after foreign care staff at a nursing home in England were unable to communicate with emergency operators.
Barbara Rymell died after she fell and got trapped under a stairlift at the Ashley House Residential home in Somerset. The two care staffers who were Romanian and Indian, were unable to tell emergency responders about the victim’s condition because they don’t speak English.
According to The Telegraph, the foreign caregivers didn’t know the difference between “the patient being “alive” and “alert”, or “breathing” and “bleeding.”
“Their lack of English “severely hampered” the call handler’s response and made a “meaningful” assessment of Mrs Rymell’s condition “virtually impossible”, the coroner said,” according to The Telegraph.
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They didn’t know “HELP!!”?
The dispatcher couldn’t detect it was an emergency and send somebody ASAP?
This probably has more to do with extreme shortage of emergency personnel in England than anything else. Ambulances can take hours to arrive.
Just why the hell would anyone expect emergency workers in England to speak english?
“This probably has more to do with extreme shortage of emergency personnel in England than anything else. Ambulances can take hours to arrive.”
No. It probably had more to do with the lack of English speaking care-givers than anything else. As evidenced by the statement below:
“Their lack of English “severely hampered” the call handler’s response and made a “meaningful” assessment of Mrs Rymell’s condition “virtually impossible”, the coroner said,” according to The Telegraph.”
If the care-givers had been able to speak English they could have let the call-handler know the seriousness of the situation and the call could have been given priority.
In the USA, if there’s any doubt, the dispatcher sends emergency services right away. They err on the side of caution. Why didn’t that happen there in this case?
“at the Ashley House Residential home in Somerset”
The owners of the Ashley House Residential home in Somerset preferred to save money by employing cheaper foreign workers.
You bet they did.
Dispatchers usually are given a check list to go through and if they deviate it can cost them their job.
What does the checklist say about an emergency call from a hysterical person speaking in a foreign language? Just ignore it and take the next caller who can speak English?
Just why the hell would anyone expect emergency workers in England to speak english?Gallows humor at its finest! Cheers!
In socialized medicine, actual patient care is just a cost-center.
Many years ago I worked at a call center as a bilingual operator. Even through I was only suppose to get Spanish language calls I got calls in every language under the sun. Some were actually people who spoke English with an accent. Got a lot of calls from people in N'Orleans.
There was a child here in the US who called 911 because his mommy wouldn't wake up and the dispatcher was screaming at him to not waste her time.
Calling Emergency can be a crap shoot. Usually they are great. But sometimes you come up with someone who really should not be in that job.
It’s a private company actually.
With an interesting history.
Which regulators in the UK clearly didn’t give a tinker’s dam about.
But that doesn’t surprise me coming from a country with a Deep State that thinks geezers have a duty to die.
I can’t disagree with you.
“ at the Ashley House Residential home in Somerset”
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No, it’s private, as are the vast majority of care homes in the UK.
“In the USA, if there’s any doubt, the dispatcher sends emergency services right away.”
That depends on location. I’m a bradycardiac, which is a person with abnormally low heart rate, typically well below 50 at rest. I woke up early one morning with a rate over 120. I called ER and was told by a woman who could hardly speak English to drink a glass of water and go back to bed.
I called an ER in a nearby city and was told to get to the ER ASAP.
Wow, what a difference in responses!
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