Another Life Is Lost Through A Lack of Responsibility!!

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Starved to death in an NHS hospital: Damning inquiry highlights case of patient left without food for 26 days so reads the headlines of the Daily Mail (UK). Yes, no mistake. Another patient is dead because he is not being fed orally or intravenously. How could that be? Well, it is absolutely true. The article reveals: A vulnerable patient starved to death in an NHS hospital after 26 days without proper nourishment. Martin Ryan, 43, had suffered a stroke which left him unable to swallow. But a 'total breakdown in communication' meant he was never fitted with a feeding tube. It was one of a number of horrific cases where the NHS fatally failed patients with learning difficulties, a health watchdog is expected to rule later this month. It also reveals another bizarre and tragic incident of another patient: Mr Ryan, who had Down's syndrome, died in hospital in Kingston-upon-Thames. An internal inquiry by the hospital found that doctors had thought nurses were feeding him through a tube in his nose. By the time they found out this was not happening, he was too weak for an operation to insert a tube into his stomach. He died in agony five days later. These revealings sure had me unsettled for quite a bit of my day and I am just appalled and in disbelieve how such things can happened at what is reckoned as a reputable hospital establishment. It is not in any God forsaken place, but right in the heart of UK. How on earth can such atrocities happen? Again, where are the people's professionalism and most of all sense of responsibility in administering health care? Sad right? Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1110054/Starved-death-NHS-hospital-Damning-inquiry-highlights-case-patient-left-food-26-days.html