FOR 15 hours patients and children at Brits District Hospital walked past the bloodied corpse of an unknown man in the casualty ward and possibly exposed themselves to infections.
Doctor Mandla Mazizi let me tell you something it is NOT the responsibility of a nurse to report a murdered person, in each and every hospital there is a clerk who receives all the patients who come in and these clerks are in A&E departments or casualty, as soon as there is a police case the clerk together with mortuary people report to police and there is suppose to be a register to keep all the details of these people and most of the time the police register is NORMALLY labelled police cases. In a normally functioning hospital all the deceased are sent to hospital mortuary or morgue, the doctors and the nurses can never take upon them to communicate with outside people, if that is the case the very doctor who certified the death should inform the police to come and pick up the corpse, but it is the duty of the doctor to report any infectious conditions and register them accordingly.
What you doctors are putting on the shoulders of the nurses is too much but you should take responsibility. In this case where they share a mortuary with another hospital which I find very disturbing because it is equal to not respecting the dead they should have arranged to put the deceased in the sluice room until a transport to pick him up comes or ask the nearby private mortuary to pick up the body and keep it until police make arrangements to come and pick it up to the police mortuary or government mortuary. Doctor Mandla Mazizi I do not want to think that you are a cadre.
In this case nurses have got nothing to do with this, and I would advise that nurses and hospital must have INCIDENT FORMS where every issue is reported in case there is litigation. Report Abuse
Oct 23, 2012
Bebesocs
A police case can never be wrapped or washed he/she must first be seen by police afetr all investigation have been done then he/she is washed and cleaned. Report Abuse
Oct 23, 2012
iPhone4
What kind of hospital is this with no mortuary? Report Abuse
Oct 23, 2012
RobinHH
Bebesocs: Thans for that very rational, detailed an accurate exposition> I work in the health environment and have had extensive experience in the manner in which such cases are handled, and you are dead right. However, I think one can still reasonably expect that the person in charge of that ward or area to have properly cordoned off the area to avoid 1) contamination of the scene, and 2) spread of possible infection. It seems as though the nurse was about the only one in the area who paid any attention and I feel she is to be commended for that.
iPhone: The reality is that many "smaller" hospitals do not have their own morgues. That function is often outsourced to accredited funeral services with appropriate police liaison. Morgues are not simply rooms. Bodies have to be kept at regulated temperatures, certain security issues need to be taken into consideration, particularly in the cases of "unknown" or unidentified persons. So they are quite costly to set-up and run. Report Abuse
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Shredder
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Bebesocs
Doctor Mandla Mazizi let me tell you something it is NOT the responsibility of a nurse to report a murdered person, in each and every hospital there is a clerk who receives all the patients who come in and these clerks are in A&E departments or casualty, as soon as there is a police case the clerk together with mortuary people report to police and there is suppose to be a register to keep all the details of these people and most of the time the police register is NORMALLY labelled police cases. In a normally functioning hospital all the deceased are sent to hospital mortuary or morgue, the doctors and the nurses can never take upon them to communicate with outside people, if that is the case the very doctor who certified the death should inform the police to come and pick up the corpse, but it is the duty of the doctor to report any infectious conditions and register them accordingly.What you doctors are putting on the shoulders of the nurses is too much but you should take responsibility. In this case where they share a mortuary with another hospital which I find very disturbing because it is equal to not respecting the dead they should have arranged to put the deceased in the sluice room until a transport to pick him up comes or ask the nearby private mortuary to pick up the body and keep it until police make arrangements to come and pick it up to the police mortuary or government mortuary. Doctor Mandla Mazizi I do not want to think that you are a cadre.
In this case nurses have got nothing to do with this, and I would advise that nurses and hospital must have INCIDENT FORMS where every issue is reported in case there is litigation.
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Bebesocs
A police case can never be wrapped or washed he/she must first be seen by police afetr all investigation have been done then he/she is washed and cleaned.Report Abuse
iPhone4
What kind of hospital is this with no mortuary?Report Abuse
RobinHH
Bebesocs: Thans for that very rational, detailed an accurate exposition> I work in the health environment and have had extensive experience in the manner in which such cases are handled, and you are dead right. However, I think one can still reasonably expect that the person in charge of that ward or area to have properly cordoned off the area to avoid 1) contamination of the scene, and 2) spread of possible infection. It seems as though the nurse was about the only one in the area who paid any attention and I feel she is to be commended for that.iPhone: The reality is that many "smaller" hospitals do not have their own morgues. That function is often outsourced to accredited funeral services with appropriate police liaison. Morgues are not simply rooms. Bodies have to be kept at regulated temperatures, certain security issues need to be taken into consideration, particularly in the cases of "unknown" or unidentified persons. So they are quite costly to set-up and run.
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