Queensland Hospital Shocker...

[Diesal]

"Queensland hospitals worst for killing, maiming, botched operations

A NEW report that reveals 49 people were mistakenly killed or seriously injured in Queensland hospitals shows they are "death traps", opposition health spokesman Mark McArdle says.

The Productivity Commission's Report on Government Services 2009 reveals that Queensland hospitals have the nation's worst published record for killing or maiming patients through botched operations, medication errors and other mistakes.

The report details "sentinel events" - or preventable serious medical errors - in each state during 2006-07.

Queensland recorded the largest number of people killed or maimed, accounting for more than a quarter of the national total.

The incidents included 33 cases where procedures were done on the wrong patient or body part, six cases where a medication error killed a patient and four cases where mothers died in child birth.

Three patients were returned to surgery because an instrument or other material was left inside them during an operation, two patients committed suicide while admitted to a hospital and one person was transfused with incompatible blood."

Article from: The Australian Queensland hospitals worst for killing, maiming, botched operations | The Courier-Mail

"An instrument or other material was left inside them during an operation?" WTF? How does that even happen?

[Aphex]

QLD...

That's all you really needed to say.

/sarcasm

That's fkn shocking.

[xphread]

You should hear some of the stories that come out of RPH...
Just because the media hasnt got hold of it, doesnt mean it doesnt happen.

Friggen scary.

[dugy]

Got a shortage of doctors & nurses.....give any idiot the job.

[jules_1972]

Imported idiots at that.......

[rod]

There was a story last week in the news about a hospital in NSW (Dubbo I think) which had no morphine and no air conditioning for five days.

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