WHERE YOU GO TO DIE

On Saturday, 29 April, we had the unfortunate need to rush my 69 year mother to hospital. If only we had know what a horrible experience 1 unfortunate fall would now be putting my entire family through, we would have tried to avoid going to this **** hole of a hospital (Netcare Alberton) with their full of attitude staff.

The building is the only thing that is new, the attitudes of the staff is that of the worst government hospital you could think off.

Not only did the casualty staff have the push blame attitude, 2 in particular were anything but helpful. How are we to know what the ambulance is meant to do when brining someone in!! No instead these 2 nurses just kept telling us about the fact that the ambulance staff were meant to fill out some form in order for a file to be opened. Needless to say after two of hours of waiting, unknowingly, did we eventually realise that the Dr could not see my mother because there was no file.

After 5 hours of being in casualty she eventually ended up in the Ward where the Dr, who was to perform the operation did not even do historical checks or double checking if the injuring was on both sides. Instead in his immaturity on my mother insisting that she wanted her surgeon to work on her, he just shrugged her over to our Dr like nothing almost saying "here she wants you, you deal with it". Needless to say in his rush to want to operate, probably for the extra weekend on call dime, my mother could have bled to death.

The nurses in the ward now are something else too. No concern or action to the fact that my mother has not eaten or awake or coherent since Sunday, 30 April. Its like they are also just standing by watching her wither away, and all this because of a fall at home. And now we as a family have to deal with the sickening and sad happenings of an ***********, nonchalant staff.