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| KPH Horror |
BY KIMBERLEY HIBBERT Staff reporter hibbertk@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, May 17, 2015
THERE is yet another negative report pointed at Jamaica's premier health-care institution, the Kingston Public Hospital.
Kenniesha Burrell recounted what she described as a horrific ordeal endured by her father, Michael Burrell, who had gone to the hospital to seek treatment. Michael Burrell eventually died, due to what his daughter claimed was 'bad treatment' by KPH staff.
When Burrell contacted the Jamaica Observer, distraught with pain and grief, she said that her ordeal began on December 5, 2014 after a misdiagnosis of acid reflux by private doctors was confirmed at Annotto Bay Hospital to be stage five renal failure. That meant that her father's kidneys had lost nearly all their ability to work effectively, and eventually dialysis or a kidney transplant would be needed to keep him alive.
"After the doctor told my mommy of the findings, I rushed to my father's side screaming and crying because this is no news no one wants to hear. When I got there, I saw his mother, my mother and his niece at his bedside and I started to cry all over again.
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| Slept in chair at hospital |
"He held on to me and started to cry and begged me not to cry because he will be fine and I am only making him weak when I cry. It was the worst feeling ever. I never saw my father cry.
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| Burrell and her father Michael, the day before he died. |
"The feeling of not knowing what will happen seconds, minutes, hours or even days later makes you anxious and weak," she said.
Burrell further explained that after learning of the seriousness of the condition, the decision was made to transfer her father to KPH, as the doctor at Annotto Bay informed the family that there was no working dialysis machine there, which he would need to stay alive.
At KPH, Burrell said her father was placed on a ward with no beds available and consequently had to sleep in his wheelchair that night. more
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