‘Disquieting’ situation
PA Whangarei The Whangarei Hospital Board has been urged to review its staffing numbers after the death of an asthma patient in the hospital earlier this year. The situation at the hospital was described as “disquieting” by the Coroner (Mr M. E. bowen) at a Coroner’s Court hearing on Monday.
He was giving his finding at an inquest into the death of Yvonne Patricia Timmins on February 22. He found she died of inter-pulmonary haemorrhage during an asthma attack. Mr Bowen said although there were conflicts in the evidence, they were the sort of things that might happen in a busy hospital on a Saturday night.
“But I find it disquieting that a young doctor was expected to cope with nine wards of patients on a 24hour basis,” he said. The Coroner said it was difficult to conceive how one doctor could do justice to so many patients. There was nothing to suggest that either the doctor or the nursing staff were responsible for the death of Mrs Timmins.
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