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toubab1020
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 Posted - 20 Feb 2012 : 12:42:41
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I do not know what the nursing cover on wards is at RVH,I can understand that relatives want to be with their loved ones to "render assistance" as the paper puts it,but I do not think that RVH should be expected to make their wards a camp for relatives performing their assistance,to visit is OK but to camp in the wards most of the time seems strange and very many relatives in a ward all the time must have a knock on effect on the efficiency of the nursing staff,hospital wards are places to treat the sick not to provide accommodation for relatives on a full time basis,there MUST be times when patients are seriously ill especially children when efficiency takes a second place and exceptions apply.
I hope I have understood the content and meaning of the article correctly.
Here many be a chance for the Government to provide some sort of nearby cheap hostel accommodation for relatives who live far away.
http://www.foroyaa.gm/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8966
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
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Posted - 20 Feb 2012 : 13:13:11
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quote:
Originally posted by toubab1020
..I do not think that RVH should be expected to make their wards a camp for relatives performing their assistance,to visit is OK but to camp in the wards most of the time seems strange
I know this is not something a toubab does but most Africans and more specifically Gambians take social responsibility very serious when relatives or friends are hospitalised. Even here in the Diaspora they do.
Toubab, it is mostly one person who like to stay in order to "assist".
"They claim that if they are denied their role, their patients would suffer particularly at night especially in the case of those who cannot take themselves to answer to the call of nature". |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 20 Feb 2012 : 16:11:36
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I understand your reply,but surely in terms of patient care a ward full of Gambian patients who are sick PLUS a ward full of good intentioned relatives who are in the hospital to "assist" leads to overcrowding in an already busy environment which was designed for patients and hospital staff with visitors at different times,so in effect you have wards full of people PLUS wards full of INDIVIDUAL assistants thereby doubling an already restricted space within the building in essence one patient Equals TWO people.MAYBE ward staffing levels should be reviewed and a night duty matron doing ward rounds would also be an idea.
It appears to a toubab  that relatives are unwilling to TRUST anyone other than family members.weather that be patients or "assistants"
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