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Such stories are becoming more common now in NZ. Take note & be prepared if you can. You won’t always be accorded the attention you once would have been … for whatever reason they proffer. All up there are certain financial parameters that you won’t necessarily know about. Similar appears to be happening with the elderly.
EnvirowatchRangitikei
From stuff.co.nz
A dying man was discharged to a bus stop wearing pyjamas because Christchurch Hospital staff felt he was a “nuisance” and “faking” his illness.
Neil David Jones, 47, then lay on the footpath for six hours while members of the public tried to get doctors to help him. He was eventually trespassed from the hospital and taken to a shelter, where he vomited blood.
An ambulance took him back to hospital, where he died two days later.
The coroner has blasted Jones’ care as an “appalling” failure, while his angry family say he was treated “worse than an animal”.
“You wouldn’t treat a dog like that would you,” his mother, Joan Jones, said.
Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) chief executive David Meates, who has apologised personally to Jones’ family, admitted Coroner Michael Robb’s findings made for “sobering reading”.
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