{"id":45072,"date":"2024-11-05T08:43:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T06:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/ontevrede-met-hospitaaldiens-20241030-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:27:32","slug":"ontevrede-met-hospitaaldiens-20241030-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/ontevrede-met-hospitaaldiens-20241030-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontevrede met hospitaaldiens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2019n Inwoner van Saldanha is ongelukkig met die mediese versorging wat haar man by Life Weskus- private hospitaal in Vredenburg ontvang het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die inwoner het aan <span>Weslander <\/span>verduidelik dat urienweginfeksie verkeerdelik by haar man gediagnoseer is nadat hy Saterdag 12 Oktober in die hospitaal opgeneem is. Haar man is n\u00e1 vier dae in die hospitaal ontslaan, maar is later weer weens pyn en ongemak wat hy ervaar het, opgeneem. \u201cMet die voorskrif wat hy ontvang het, het ons die hospitaal drie keer gebel, maar die dokter het ges\u00ea hy moet nog water en \u2019n ekstra pynpil drink. Hoe meer water hy gedrink het, hoe erger het die pyn geword. N\u00e1 die vierde keer wat ons gebel het, was die aanddokter aan diens en sy het ges\u00ea hy moet weer inkom. Sy het bloedtoetse laat doen en hom vir \u2019n infeksievlak-toets en CT-skandering gestuur, wat bepaal het dat hy nierstene het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die vrou is dankbaar vir di\u00e9 dokter wat wel \u2019n akkurate diagnose kon maak. Sy meen dit is nie die eerste keer dat hulle sulke diens by die hospitaal ontvang nie en voel al die pyn en ongemak kon verhoed gewees het indien die regte diagnose en behandeling die eerste keer gedoen is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens die inwoner is daar geen kommunikasie onder die mediese personeel nie en met die skuif teater toe, was daar geen inligting in sy l\u00eaer nie. Wat ook skokkend was vir die inwoner en haar man was hoe hardhandig die personeel hom hanteer het. \u201cHy het gevra vir hulp, maar is ge\u00efgnoreer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vele ander gebeurtenisse tydens haar man se verblyf in die hospitaal het die paartjie ontstel. Die inwoner meen die hospitaal moet aanspreeklikheid neem en n\u00e1 talle e-posse en oproepe het sy nog geen terugvoer gekry nie. \u201cDie diens wat aan ander pasi\u00ebnte gelewer is, is ook skrikwekkend. Dit kan nie meer so aangaan nie. Jy betaal duur vir \u2019n mediese fonds en d\u00edt is die diens wat jy kry. Daar is geen spesialiste wat werklike ernstige gevalle kan hanteer nie. Ek was self \u2019n pasi\u00ebnt by die staatshospitaal en ek het baie beter diens [daar] gekry,\u201d voeg sy by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die inwoner se man is oorgeplaas na Blouberg-hospitaal, waar die nierstene uiteindelik verwyder is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maryke Pearson, \u2019n woordvoerder van die Life Weskus- private hospitaal, s\u00ea die hospitaal is bewus van die kommer wat deur die pasi\u00ebnt geopper is rakende hul onlangse ondervinding by die hospitaal. \u201cOns is daarop ingestel om ho\u00eb standaarde van sorg te handhaaf en om sterk gesondheidsorgverhoudings met ons pasi\u00ebnte en hul gesinne te behou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOm hierdie situasie deeglik op te los, wag ons op \u2019n formele klagte van die pasi\u00ebnt. 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