Today
in the Kamloops Daily News (03/30/12), I was deeply disturbed to read a letter
from a husband whose wife has been a patient at Royal Inland Hospital. He stated:
Instead of being able to recoup and recover she
was kept awake all night by patient buzzers in the hall, for three days made to
use a public unisex washroom that had a sign put on it that the public was not
to use it as it was for the patients in the hallway...of which there were three
at that time.
I
ask, and have asked before, what kind of care and recovery will a patient have when they are put in hallways to recover?
But that is not the only issue or problem people are experiencing with
stays in the hospital. With limited space available, we now have
medical staff who are discussing patient care, and needs, amongst other people
who should have NO part in these discussions – they however have no choice.
The
letter writer went on to say:
