Indian hospitals are better than NHS hospitals
A political row has broken out over the state of Britain's hospitals after a retired consultant complained that his wife received far better treatment in India. Opposition parties accused Labour of running down the NHS and failing to put patients first.
The dispute was sparked by the contrasting experience of Mark Ziervogel, 70, and his wife Toni, 66, in hospitals in India and Glasgow.
She received specialist treatment in two medical centres in India after suffering a serious head injury when she fell off a bicycle during a cycling holiday in Rajasthan in February.
Her husband, a former consultant radiologist, said the hospital in Ajmer, where she was seen by a neurosurgeon and given CT scans that revealed bruising to the brain, was “superb”.
He praised its cleanliness, the efficiency of the staff and the high standard of equipment available.
After five days in intensive care she was transferred to the Max Super Hospital in Delhi and on March 6 she had recovered enough to be taken home to Scotland.
She was accompanied on the flight by an Indian doctor and nurse, and Mr Ziervogel said he “blushed” with embarrassment when the doctor walked into the “filthy” Western Infirmary in Glasgow.
He added that it was more than four hours before his wife was given a bed on a surgical ward, and staff then told him that the hospital was not able to handle patients with head injuries who required rehabilitation.
She has since been waiting for five weeks for a bed to become available at the physical disability rehabilitation unit in the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, and fell out of bed and broke her jaw during her stay at the Western.
However, Mr Ziervogel praised the staff at the hospital for their “kindness and patience”, and blamed the problems on bureaucratic “management and systems”.
"Staff have provided Toni with the best care they can given the resources they have,” he added.
Dr Nanette Milne, the Scottish Conservative health spokesman, blamed the conditions experienced by the Ziergovels on Scotland's Labour/Lib Dem coalition interfering in the day to day running of the NHS.
She added: “The Lib-Lab pact, despite the best efforts of NHS staff, is running our health service down We will take politicians out of the running of the NHS and let the professionals do their job.”
Shona Robison, the Scottish National Party health spokesman, said that after eight years of Labour and Liberal Democrat government, patients and health professionals deserved an NHS “fit for the 21st century”.
She added: “Mr Ziervogel quite rightly praised the professionalism of the staff but raises pertinent questions about the resources the staff have at their disposal.”
The consultant, from East Dunbartonshire outside Glasgow, who formerly ran the X-ray department at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, also revealed that his wife's ambulance was kept waiting when it arrived at the Western as another emergency had just come in.
He said standards had declined in the NHS, adding: “It strikes me as strange that an acute receiving hospital with an A&E can only handle one case at a time."
"The Indian doctor was appalled. He was also appalled at the filthy and dirty aspect of the Western.”
From:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/18/nhosp118.xml
Health Direct re examines Tony "Purer than pure" Bliar's record since he became Prime Minister in May 1997. He has been remarkably consistent in his promises. The reason is… they just haven't been fulfilled
Then: NHS debt stood at £304 million, and hundreds of hospitals had suffered cuts. 1.1 million people were on hospital waiting lists.
April 1997: "24 hours to save our National Health Service."
December 1997: "Over time, we can reform and improve the NHS so that, in three or four years, we no longer talk about saving it, but talk about the massive changes and improvements brought about by a Labour Government."
March 1999: "We believe that the answer to Health Service problems is the £21 billion that we are allocating to the NHS."
March 2001: "An enormous amount of change and investment is necessary."
October 2002: "Yes, of course there are still big problems in the Health Service, but massive investment and improvements are also going on."
November 2004: "We are well on the way to the renewal of the National Health Service."
March 2005: "Yes, there are problems in our National Health Service — there are in all health-care systems — but any reasonable person looking at our health-care system today would see exactly where the money is going."
July 2006: Urges British voters to take more responsibility for their own health, to relieve pressures upon the NHS. "What we are part of is a revolution and change in the way people are looking at health care."
2007: NHS debt has spiralled to a record £1.2 million, hundreds of hospitals face cuts and closures. More than 750,000 people are on hospital waiting lists and more people die of MRSA and superbugs in NHS hospitals that they do on the UK's roads.
The dispute was sparked by the contrasting experience of Mark Ziervogel, 70, and his wife Toni, 66, in hospitals in India and Glasgow.
She received specialist treatment in two medical centres in India after suffering a serious head injury when she fell off a bicycle during a cycling holiday in Rajasthan in February.
Her husband, a former consultant radiologist, said the hospital in Ajmer, where she was seen by a neurosurgeon and given CT scans that revealed bruising to the brain, was “superb”.
He praised its cleanliness, the efficiency of the staff and the high standard of equipment available.
After five days in intensive care she was transferred to the Max Super Hospital in Delhi and on March 6 she had recovered enough to be taken home to Scotland.
She was accompanied on the flight by an Indian doctor and nurse, and Mr Ziervogel said he “blushed” with embarrassment when the doctor walked into the “filthy” Western Infirmary in Glasgow.
He added that it was more than four hours before his wife was given a bed on a surgical ward, and staff then told him that the hospital was not able to handle patients with head injuries who required rehabilitation.
She has since been waiting for five weeks for a bed to become available at the physical disability rehabilitation unit in the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, and fell out of bed and broke her jaw during her stay at the Western.
However, Mr Ziervogel praised the staff at the hospital for their “kindness and patience”, and blamed the problems on bureaucratic “management and systems”.
"Staff have provided Toni with the best care they can given the resources they have,” he added.
Dr Nanette Milne, the Scottish Conservative health spokesman, blamed the conditions experienced by the Ziergovels on Scotland's Labour/Lib Dem coalition interfering in the day to day running of the NHS.
She added: “The Lib-Lab pact, despite the best efforts of NHS staff, is running our health service down We will take politicians out of the running of the NHS and let the professionals do their job.”
Shona Robison, the Scottish National Party health spokesman, said that after eight years of Labour and Liberal Democrat government, patients and health professionals deserved an NHS “fit for the 21st century”.
She added: “Mr Ziervogel quite rightly praised the professionalism of the staff but raises pertinent questions about the resources the staff have at their disposal.”
The consultant, from East Dunbartonshire outside Glasgow, who formerly ran the X-ray department at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, also revealed that his wife's ambulance was kept waiting when it arrived at the Western as another emergency had just come in.
He said standards had declined in the NHS, adding: “It strikes me as strange that an acute receiving hospital with an A&E can only handle one case at a time."
"The Indian doctor was appalled. He was also appalled at the filthy and dirty aspect of the Western.”
From:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/18/nhosp118.xml
Health Direct re examines Tony "Purer than pure" Bliar's record since he became Prime Minister in May 1997. He has been remarkably consistent in his promises. The reason is… they just haven't been fulfilled
Then: NHS debt stood at £304 million, and hundreds of hospitals had suffered cuts. 1.1 million people were on hospital waiting lists.
April 1997: "24 hours to save our National Health Service."
December 1997: "Over time, we can reform and improve the NHS so that, in three or four years, we no longer talk about saving it, but talk about the massive changes and improvements brought about by a Labour Government."
March 1999: "We believe that the answer to Health Service problems is the £21 billion that we are allocating to the NHS."
March 2001: "An enormous amount of change and investment is necessary."
October 2002: "Yes, of course there are still big problems in the Health Service, but massive investment and improvements are also going on."
November 2004: "We are well on the way to the renewal of the National Health Service."
March 2005: "Yes, there are problems in our National Health Service — there are in all health-care systems — but any reasonable person looking at our health-care system today would see exactly where the money is going."
July 2006: Urges British voters to take more responsibility for their own health, to relieve pressures upon the NHS. "What we are part of is a revolution and change in the way people are looking at health care."
2007: NHS debt has spiralled to a record £1.2 million, hundreds of hospitals face cuts and closures. More than 750,000 people are on hospital waiting lists and more people die of MRSA and superbugs in NHS hospitals that they do on the UK's roads.
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