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Caroline S

1 reviews | Active since Feb 2022

14 Mar 2022, 19:00

The nurses manhandle you and speak to you in an impolite manner.

I was extremely upset to have witnessed how rude the nurse was treating a male patient during a covid testing process. He was being polite and answering her questions to the best of his knowledge and she yelled at him as if he is an idiot and treating him as if he had the bubonic plague During the testing she was clearly hurting him (yes it is a sensitive procedure and the sample needs to be taken deep in the sinuses), but he was clearly flinching, giving good indication she has reached the target and more. She still continued driving it up there as if to result a nose bleed. If one has a bad day, you do not take it out on the patients or clients. This was an upsetting experience and will not test there again myself.

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Ampath Laboratories (Pty) Ltd
Ampath Laboratories (Pty) Ltd's reply15 Mar 2022, 13:07
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Hi Caroline. Thank you for getting in touch and for bringing this to our attention as all feedback provides us with valuable information on how to improve our service. We appreciate that witnessing such an experience would be upsetting and do apologise as this behaviour is certainly not in keeping with our values. We would appreciate knowing the facility where this incident took place so as to address the incident.
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Caroline S's update16 Mar 2022, 15:32
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It was at the Fairy Glen facility across from the Fairy Glen Pharmacy and Hospital and it was the nurse on shift at around 10 o'clock. It was unnecessary mistreatment of this patient. He did not complain or was in any way uncompliant, she just verbally mistreated him from the beginning and that is not fair treatment of any human to a point I don't want to visit in feeling that no matter how kind or compliant I would be, I would still be mistreated.