Posted on 01/17/2014 6:35:01 PM PST by marshmallow
An elderly woman was left on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a nurse was praying, an inquest heard.
Alzheimer's sufferer Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang and a carer went to the office for help to lift her.
But agency nurse Abdul Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait.
Carer Zoe Shaw told the Sheffield hearing: "It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying upstairs in the office on his prayer mat. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish."
An ambulance was not called for nearly four hours after Mrs Griffiths fell from bed and cut her head and suffered a gash to her hip at the privately-run Valley Park Nursing Home in Wombwell, near Barnsley.
She died later in hospital. Mr Bhutto failed to appear at the inquest and a summons had to be issued for him to attend the resumed hearing later in the year.
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If he’s incompetent apart from his religion, that definitely an issue. That’s what it sound like, if his prayer was 10 minutes but emergency service wasn’t called for four hours.
Point is... HE as the nurse in charge had to call for the emergency services. Apparently he waited over 3 hours to do so or order it done. That’s the way it works. The staff cannot do this... the nurse in charge had to order it.
Seems as though I read about this at least a year ago...is this another such event? Let’s hope not.
Sad. RIP.
What is wrong with people?
The headline is quite misleading. Yes she died “after” the nurse delayed picking her up but if you read the whole story she also died after being basically ignored for a further 4 hours. It sounds like the staff, including the nurse in question, were negligent but the story doesn’t seem to support the implication that the nurse’s praying caused the woman’s death.
True. In a couple of years the Muzzies who don't have the brains to drive a cab will all work at hospitals taken over by Barrycare run by Barrycrats.
How do you care about The Telegraph news from the U.K.?
Less than about Daily Mail news, because there are no celebrity vacation pictures.
Outrageous!
That SOB should go to prison for 10 years! What a dirt bag P.O.S.
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