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美國紐約市國王縣醫院日前驚爆特大丑聞，醫院監控錄像顯示，一名49歲女病人在該醫院精神病區的急診候診室中摔倒在地長達一小時竟無一人理睬，等醫護人員聞訊趕來救治她時，這名女病人早已氣絕身亡。當這名女病人在地板上掙扎和死亡時，至少有兩名醫院警衛目睹了這一切，但他們卻像沒事人一樣視若無睹，沒有採取任何急救措施。這起醫院醜聞震驚了整個紐約，紐約市衛生和醫院協會承諾將對此事展開全面調查，並稱已有6人遭到解僱。
候診室漫長等待不支倒地
這名49歲的女病人名叫埃斯敏·格林，來自牙買加的她因為情緒極度不穩定、精神錯亂在6月18日被送進了國王縣醫院。為了等候床位，格林在醫院精神科急診病房的候診室中等待了將近24個小時！6月19日凌晨5:32，格林開始用手揪著自己的腹部，從候診室的椅子上摔倒在地。
當格林倒地時，候診室中還有另外兩名病人，但他們並沒有採取任何措施。當格林四肢張開、臉朝下趴在地板上時，一名醫院警衛在5:53走進了候診室，但他朝格林看了20秒鐘后，就像沒事人一樣轉身離開候診室，他沒有向醫務人員發出任何急救警告！
痛苦掙扎氣絕身亡
格林一開始還在地板上痛苦掙扎，包括挪動、蹬腿，並試圖用手在地板上寫一些字。但凌晨6:08，她的身體就不再有任何動靜。兩分鐘后，另一名坐在可移動椅子上的醫院警衛進入了監控攝像頭範圍，但他只轉動椅子朝地上的格林看了一眼，就視若無睹地把椅子轉回了原來的方向，並離開了攝像鏡頭範圍，整個過程中他的屁股始終沒有離開過椅子。
直到凌晨6:36、格林倒地后一小時，一名女病人終於喊來了一名護士，這名護士進入候診室對格林進行檢查后，這才發覺她早已氣絕身亡。
醫院篡改病歷隱瞞真相
更讓當地居民怒火中燒的是，醫院在格林死於候診室中后，竟然還篡改她的病歷，試圖歪曲視聽，隱瞞真相。
譬如6月19日凌晨6:08，格林已經倒在地上沒有任何動靜，可醫院卻在她的病歷上稱她當時仍「處於清醒狀態、能夠四處走動，包括上廁所」。凌晨6:20時，格林已經在候診室死亡，但她的病歷上卻稱她當時「平靜地坐在候診室中等待」。
紐約市民自由聯盟官員唐娜·利伯曼說：「感謝上帝我們獲得了這盤錄像帶，否則沒有任何人會相信發生的一切。」
無良醫院受到起訴
目前紐約市國王縣醫院已經受到了忽視和虐待精神病人的指控，這份起訴書還指控國王縣醫院篡改病歷試圖掩蓋醜聞真相。
紐約市衛生和醫院協會在一份聲明中說：「發生的一切讓我們深感震驚，我們向患者家屬表示深深的哀悼，我們將對此展開徹底調查。」紐約市衛生和醫院協會還稱目前已有6人遭到解僱，其中包括兩名在監控錄像中出現的警衛以及另外4名負有疏忽責任的醫院員工。據悉，今年5月，國王縣醫院就已經因為「殘忍」虐待病人而受到了3個組織的聯合起訴。
附一： CNN英文報道 Six hospital employees disciplined in ER death
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Six hospital employees have been fired or suspended after ignoring for more than an hour a woman who collapsed and died in a New York emergency room waiting area.Surveillance video shows a woman lying on the hospital floor for almost an hour before anyone helped her.
Surveillance video shows a woman lying on the hospital floor for almost an hour before anyone helped her.
On June 18, Esmin Green, 49, was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as "agitation and psychosis."
Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.
The surveillance camera video shows the woman rolling off a waiting room chair, landing face-down on the floor and convulsing. Her collapse came at 5:32 a.m. June 19, the NYCLU said, and she stopped moving at 6:07 a.m. During that time, the organization said, workers at the hospital ignored her.
At 6:35 a.m., the tape shows a hospital employee approaching and nudging Green with her foot, the group said. Help was summoned three minutes later.
In addition, the organization said, hospital staff falsified Green's records to cover up the time she had lain there without assistance.
"Contrary to what was recorded from four different angles by the hospital's video cameras, the patient's medical records say that at 6 a.m., she got up and went to the bathroom, and at 6:20 a.m. she was 'sitting quietly in waiting room' -- more than 10 minutes since she last moved and 48 minutes after she fell to the floor."
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which oversees the hospital, released a statement Tuesday saying it was "shocked and distressed by this situation. It is clear that some of our employees failed to act based on our compassionate standards of care."
After a preliminary investigation, the corporation said it suspended or terminated six employees, "including staff involved with the direct care of the patient as well as managers of security and clinical services," the statement said.
A Health and Hospitals Corporation spokeswoman said it was aware of the discrepancies in Green's record when it began the preliminary investigation on June 20. That information is now in the hands of various investigatory agencies, she said.
The corporation pledged to put "additional and significant" reforms in place in the wake of the incident.
In May 2007, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Mental Hygiene Legal Service filed suit against Kings County in federal court, alleging that conditions at the facility are filthy. Patients are often forced to sleep in plastic chairs or on floors covered in urine, feces and blood while waiting for beds, the groups allege, and often go without basic hygiene such as showers, clean linens and clean clothes.
The lawsuit claims that patients who complain face physical abuse and are injected with drugs to keep them docile.
The hospital, the suit alleges, lacks "the minimal requirements of basic cleanliness, space, privacy, and personal hygiene that are constitutionally guaranteed even to convicted felons."
The video sent the organizations back into court Tuesday, demanding immediate reform.
"What's happening in Kings County Hospital is an affront to human dignity," New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman said in a written statement. "In 2008 in New York City, nobody should be subjected to this kind of treatment. It should not take the death of a patient to get the city to make changes that everyone knows are long overdue."
The Department of Justice recently initiated an investigation into conditions at the hospital, the organization said, prompting the facility to improve some of its problems. "But the culture of abuse and neglect remains and, as evidenced by the June death, the situation is too dire to wait for the Justice Department to act," the group said.
Among the reforms agreed to in court Tuesday by the hospital are additional staffing; checking of patients every 15 minutes; and limiting to 25 the number of patients in the psychiatric emergency ward, officials said. In addition, the hospital said it is expanding crisis-prevention training for staff; expanding space to prevent overcrowding; and reducing patients' wait time for release, treatment or placement in an inpatient bed.
On Monday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he was appalled by the surveillance video.
"Look, I saw the film like everybody else did and I was -- horrified is much too nice a word. Disgusted I think is a better word. I can't explain what happened there."advertisement
Green, a native of the island of Jamaica, lived alone in Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood. She had no close family in the United States, and her neighbor Beatrice Wallace described her as a quiet woman who had few visitors and spent most of her free time at church.
The medical examiner is withholding autopsy results pending further study and investigation into the precise cause of death. |
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