HOSPITAL CASES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 10

HOSPITAL CASES

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l beg a little space in your muchread columns regarding certain articles that have appeared lately concerning the hospital authorities. May I give you one case in particular that is still in the minds of many. A mother visits her; son one morning, after he had spent a restless night, to be told that she cannot see him as the doctors are in the ward, but to call back again. At 1.30 p.m. the mother is at the hospital, when she is informed that her. son passed away at 12.30 p.m. Yet no message is conveyed that the lad's mother could join her son in his last minutes. Sure!, under such circumstances the hospital authorities can get a message to those anxious ones, either per nearest police station or telephone some nearby neighbour. As this young man was one of a group of many I feel it my duty to bring this matter under the notice of your readers, trusting that something will be done to prevent such happenings in our Public Hospital. From the same group a blood transfusion branch had been formed, which became so abused that the group had to be withdrawn to be placed under the care of a prominent surgeon. Have any of your readers ever thought of what higher service than giving one's own life blood to those suffering—when young men came forward voluntarily to assist those in need. On one occasion two attempts were made to carry out blood transfusion from one of the donors, with the result he had to be away from his employment two days. Are responsible people in charge of this important operation, and is it right that our young men should offer themselves for something that is doing them harm ? Trusting that something will be done to prevent further occurrences.—l am, etc., C. MEACHEN.