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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/elderly-woman-mistreated-nursing-home-174803277.html
A nursing home along Braddell Road has been suspended with effect from 12 April from admitting new patients after a patient was reported to have been mistreated.
The incident at Nightingale Nursing Home came to light after a video of a patient being mistreated was sent to local broadcaster Mediacorp.
The footage was shot by a hidden camera on a patient's bedside. In the video, an elderly woman patient is seen sitting stark naked beside a bed with the room ceiling fans on.
She is then picked up by two hospital staff and thrown onto a bed, before a staff is shown slapping her on her mouth when she wailed in pain.
Watch what happened here.
Below are my personal remarks:
It's in Mandarin so I definitely don't understand a word that the narrator is saying. But action speaks louder than words! The nurses are totally cruel & heartless. How can you even imagine of treating an elderly that way? Don't be a nurse if you can't even care for others.
Remember what goes comes around. Everyone will be old one day. We definitely doesn't want to be treated that way when we are at that stage of life. Terrible people. My personal remarks/opinions ends here.
Continued from the article:
Reports say the patient has been a resident there for four years and is suffering from stroke.
According to Channel NewsAsia, the nursing home has disciplined the staff involved in the mistreatment case. The home also added that they've introduced additional measures such as checking the conduct of its staff and getting their senior staff to do the rounds.
The elderly woman's son was upset with the incident. He said, "We sent her there for the nurses to take care of her; we're disappointed with what happened."
The elderly woman has been moved to another nursing home.
Netizens were unhappy with the mistreatment of the elderly woman.
nivek001 said, "How can anyone be so heartless. It just breaks my heart to see the video. I really hope that there will be justice. What goes around, comes around. Will some people in the right places do something about it?"
Others were concerned if other patients at the home were treated the same way.
"It really leaves a lot of room for us to wonder what kind of treatment/abuse the other elderly patients in the home have been subjected to as well," said Amber^^ on hardwarezone's forum.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/elderly-woman-mistreated-nursing-home-174803277.html
A nursing home along Braddell Road has been suspended with effect from 12 April from admitting new patients after a patient was reported to have been mistreated.
The incident at Nightingale Nursing Home came to light after a video of a patient being mistreated was sent to local broadcaster Mediacorp.
The footage was shot by a hidden camera on a patient's bedside. In the video, an elderly woman patient is seen sitting stark naked beside a bed with the room ceiling fans on.
She is then picked up by two hospital staff and thrown onto a bed, before a staff is shown slapping her on her mouth when she wailed in pain.
Watch what happened here.
Below are my personal remarks:
It's in Mandarin so I definitely don't understand a word that the narrator is saying. But action speaks louder than words! The nurses are totally cruel & heartless. How can you even imagine of treating an elderly that way? Don't be a nurse if you can't even care for others.
Remember what goes comes around. Everyone will be old one day. We definitely doesn't want to be treated that way when we are at that stage of life. Terrible people. My personal remarks/opinions ends here.
Continued from the article:
Reports say the patient has been a resident there for four years and is suffering from stroke.
According to Channel NewsAsia, the nursing home has disciplined the staff involved in the mistreatment case. The home also added that they've introduced additional measures such as checking the conduct of its staff and getting their senior staff to do the rounds.
The elderly woman's son was upset with the incident. He said, "We sent her there for the nurses to take care of her; we're disappointed with what happened."
The elderly woman has been moved to another nursing home.
Netizens were unhappy with the mistreatment of the elderly woman.
nivek001 said, "How can anyone be so heartless. It just breaks my heart to see the video. I really hope that there will be justice. What goes around, comes around. Will some people in the right places do something about it?"
Others were concerned if other patients at the home were treated the same way.
"It really leaves a lot of room for us to wonder what kind of treatment/abuse the other elderly patients in the home have been subjected to as well," said Amber^^ on hardwarezone's forum.
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