Thursday, September 30, 2004

accountability.

My maternal grandmother is lying in hospital now in a semi-conscious state, suffering from low-blood pressure due to negligence on the doctors' part to prevent excessive bleeding during her knee operation. Even then, they did not perform the necessary blood transfusions needed to replace the lost blood. They overlooked the fact that normal human beings need an outlet for waste, failing to provide my anaesthesized grandmother with a urinary tube until many hours after the operation.

As a result, she has undergone a period of great stress, her problems are compounded, and what was supposed to be a routine operation has been blown out of proportion and scale. Sudden onset of low-blood pressure is prone to cause permanent damage to the brain, and patients are highly susceptible to slipping into a state of coma. Already, she has spoken of hallucinations comprising of my already deceased grandfather and another unidentified figure calling out to her, asking her to come over to their side.

In response, the doctors are taking steps to rectify the damage done, but they have become unduly defensive, stating that they were ignorant of my grandmother's kidney problem, and that they are not specialists in that particular area, and thereby were not able to take specific precautions to prevent exacerbation of her current medical problems in the duration of the operation.

My only question to them is: WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILTY?!!?

Those s***heads.

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