last year my husband was admitted with burns.. I was shocked at the lack of professionalism with nurses and the care He received from the time we entered the ER. Once on the ward I was horrified and didn't want to leave him there in fear of infection . The conditions were deplorable and unspeakable. I can't wrap my head around it all still to this day. People are treated like animals not like humans. The nurses were rude and very physically aggressive with patients. The Government needs to get things cleaned up seriously . Who holds these people accountable in there jobs running this so called hospital. I am praying for change. I love Jamaica it is my second home but yet I am broken to see how things are run.

In 2007, my grandmother who in the Mandeville Hospital was mistreated. For example, the workers failed to provide her the hygienic responses that her body solicited. She was then transferred to K.P.H in an ambulance, which was an unfamiliar experience , due to kidney issues, her in ability to urinate and to defecate. At K.P.H, a family member who lived nearby recanted that my grandmother was in distress, experiencing excessive pain, and received inadequate medical attention towards her growing stomach. My grandmother died less than a week after being admitted , with her right hand balled in a fist according to the family member who witnessed her final descent. Unfortunately, this relieved her from the systematic pain and suffering that was inflicted upon her by the so called professionals. Death was her only escape from this medical monstrosity. I live in the US, but was unable to return back abruptly due to financial constraints to see her before she zeroed out. A few weeks later, I entered the church, walked towards her casket, and was in tears as the first thing that I noticed was not her pink dress, but her balled fist. I was unable to cope with the reality of her being in two foreign environments and her deafness possibly perceived as a barrier to attaining possible, if any medical attention or was it used as a simple a defense to provide none. This year will be 9 years since her passing and I have yet to synthesize what happened. The cause of her death remains a mystery or was it simple acts of negligence and improper medical supervision. K.P.H needs to be cleaned out from the top to the bottom, but keep the workers who really care.

6 years ago, K.P.H let trainee doctors operate on my grandmother's throat and she died in surgery.

@diegogeneral1217

7 жыл бұрын

Seriously oh awful, hence it's a third world country and shall remain the same. So sorry to hear.

It's the first I'm seeing this video and it's so tru, the professionalism isn't there. God is on your side if u fall ill and come back out alive at kph. One of the patients that was videoed tied to the bed is my father. He met in an accident and I had to be visiting him everyday to make sure that he was being taken care of, which still didn't make a difference. I overheard doctors stating that he wasn't gonna make it and they stop medicating him and giving him oxygen. I spoke to them about him not being medicated and none of the doctors or nursed cared. One day I came to visit and he was unresponsive and when I screamed and beg for help that's when they ran and come an put on oxygen on him. His former boss heard about the bad treatment and that he was deteriorating at the hospital and paid for him to be transfer Nuttall hospital. When the transfered document was to get signed by kph, the doctor's gave me attitude and cursed me out saying if he die on arrival to nuttal its my fault and my responsibility. After the bad talks from the doctors,the papers were signed and the security didn't want to let out the ambulance with my father because they said they didn't get any word of release. It was a horrible back and forth. Eventually when we went to Nuttall, my dad spend 2 months there and he is alive and well now. I see the doctor's took very great care of him and gave him attention and proper medical care, they treated him like he was their family. The doctors at Nuttall said that if he was getting proper medical care and attention at kph, he would have started to recover earlier. There is so much more to this expand story, but I had ro break it down in a smaller form. If u don't have money or God with you, yuh corner dark when it comes on to good medical care in this country.

will this video help make the hospital better? i love that you went in and saw all of this and reported it. i hope it will help

Great job Tyrone. Proud of you. Keep doing great investigative journalism. You did a great job of speaking without a script from memory of what you observed each day. Awesome reporting.

This hurt my soul to know 2020 it's still the same

I can't imagine how uncomfortable some of these nurses must be in such a dirty place not conducive for human beings.

Thank you Gleaner and Mr Reid for taking the bold step to report on these inhumane conditions at KPH which is deplorable and the facility should be abandoned. Dr Ferguson should respond to these issues with a comprehensive plan to correct immediately. Additionally, PAHO (Pam American Health Org) and WHO (World Health Org) need to be aware of these conditions. It is surprising anyone come out of this place alive.

Nothing changed since this report what appropriate measures put in place to stop these inhuman treatment? 🙏🙏

8 hears passed and 2020 is the same thing something is wrong there

Goodman. come on people who is respond for the hospital environment look often the hospital Jamaica is a beautiful country

this is so sad...politics comes before the ppl at all cost...smh

Such poor standards so its not surprising the quality of care is the same.

Well done reporter well done ! Everything u saying is true....

Omg 8 yeas has passed and its still the same, my grandma passed away 3 days ago at VJH theh were neglect with here and they treat her so baddly this broke my heart i didnt know this could be one of the worst hospital in the world.

people trust me it get worse, ntn nu change, 2016 mi go up deh wen mi cousin admit an roach a tek over d whole hospital, I roof a drop out!!, if mi sick an a dead mek mi dead a mi yard mi nah go admit a KPH

@HelloItsMe-oy1hj

8 жыл бұрын

you cnt even too blame d workers dwn there cuz d government nah do ntn fi d hospital!, all d bathroom ina deplorable condition!!!

Good job Mr Tyrone Reid

This is embarrassing

Dem money deh dem have a pay ppl to tek juk dem fi use it to buy wheel chairs and to fix the equipment necessary.

now it is 2016 has anything changed for the better

@EvelynGresham

7 жыл бұрын

wow! so sad

@islandsurveyor

6 жыл бұрын

now it's 2018 - nothing has improved

wow that's disgusting knowing that they were paid to do dear job they didn't do shit wow that's bad they should put in jail

Government provides nothing for the staff to use... 1) There are no such thing as a proper restraint used because there are none provided hence gauze with cotton padding is made. 2) Men and women do not share the same ward! Any ward with A is for men and any ward with B is for women. 3)Mary Seacole is one level not two, the other ward I'm assuming your referring to is Edwina ward. Its been 5 years since this was posted and nothing has changed and nothing will change the hospital its well over 200 years old and it looks the same as when the slaves were here. My point is government dont give a crap about it nor the staff nor the patients. There's nothing to work with, no medication, not enough IV fluids, crappy beds that don't work so boxes have to be used to elevate the head of the bed, not enough sheets have to be begging those to be admitted to get sheets for the bed if they even get a bed, the wheelchairs don't work and the biggest issue of all, not enough nurses... On a ward that should hold 30 there's well over 40 scrunched together, nurses trying to make it work. So lets imagine now shall we, a ward with 40 patients with only two nurses please do the math....If you can't the answer is each nurse gets 20 patients to care for. That's inhumane and does not happen anywhere else. It's unfair cause no way in hell can each patient get proper care, something is bound to happen. People think all nurses do is check blood pressure and do temperature. Not a damn thing like that. Medication is to be served and just to serve one patient takes a good 15 to 20 minutes and remember now in the above scenario thats 20 patients each taking 20 mins. On top of that everybody cussing and want attention now, relatives complaining about beds not being neat and pampers to change. It doesn't work like that, critically ill patients are on the ward and them must be seen over everyone else so they are priority. I'm tired of the one sided news and reports. Yes you gonna get attitude from the nurses cause them stressed the hell out trying to plz everyone and no one gives a crap about them. No bathroom breaks no lunch nurses have fell and injured themselves and get nothing, out of a job no pay nothing.... Stop blaming the staff and go chat to unuh Government who don't give a ______... No way in hell patients can get good care when the roof a fall out and when rain fall it a fall on the wards, No sheet fi put on the beds, no cups to give patients little water fi drink, dutty looking wards, wall paint a peel off, tile crack up, fan weh nuh wuk, light switch weh not even a work, you know how much times no water not even available!!!!! no medication that the patient needs to get better, pharmacy no have it, a strain we self a lift people 3, 4 or 5 times we body size, a bruk back fi do the best we can with the little we have!!!!! Come on man !!!!! It's not the staff!!!!!!

I think he did a good job. What's more he is working incognito and I actually do not find any fault with his standard

SENIOR Reporter?... Really? ... Or was he undercover as that as well? ... Not convinced... >>> Kudos to the Gleaner for taking Investigative Journalism to the next level in Jamaica...

who is the property manager there?

WOW I HOPE BY NOW SOMETHINGS HAVE CHANGED

Good job, but too much 3rd party reporting though, would have nailed it if people's actions and statements were captured, as it is most of it can easily b discarded... undeniable facts

sounds like a seen from a war stories wow such a daaaaam disguise

He looks like a guy who attends Faith Chapel

I like the idea of the undercover mission to report but it wasn't executed well. with smartphones and all the new technology I know the jamaica gleaner can afford to do better. I know of professional misconduct by police and hospital staff alike is out of control at kph, so actual video footage would have been very useful to the viewers. as long as they are not violating patient privacy rights. all in all thanks for the effort, because stories like these need to be publicize.

@cammigurl

7 жыл бұрын

jahains livity phones not allowed some places on hospital compound