Comments on: Queensland Health – a first-hand account /queensland-health-a-first-hand-account/ The Political Blog of Neil Ennis Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:32:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Goodwin /queensland-health-a-first-hand-account/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Thu, 28 May 2009 22:37:29 +0000 /?p=23#comment-4 >On the other side my Brother in Law died as a result of there inadequate attention to their job.

He had a bicycle accident where he stumbled into a tree, broke an arm. Ambulance took over 30 minutes to get to him. Once it arrived he was taken to hospital. Ambulance drivers advised the hospital staff that his blood pressure was dropping.

They put him aside due to just having a broken arm, 5 hours later he died of cardiac arrest from internal bleeding.

When originally investigating what happened the hospital replied “We lost the records” it took many months to find out what happened.

He was aged 32, left behind two sons, one 5 and one 3.

Those boys will never really know his dad who’s death could of been prevented if the proper staffing was available and procedures followed to ensure he was ok rather than just pushing him aside into a room to die.

I still remember at his funeral, Chris, his five year old asking how his dad was going to get out of the whole they were putting him in.

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