Friday, 28 August 2009
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Children NOT Priority for Frank Bainimarama
The Children's Outpatient Services (Paediatrics Department) of the CWM Hospital closed its doors to our children on Monday.
The reason given for the “indefinite closure” by the Ministry of Health last week was due to “staff shortage” and “re-identifying the core business of the hospital”.
Imagine, our Children are no longer “core business” for Fiji's main Public Hospital.
I was lost for words until I stumbled upon this.
The head of paediatrics S.A Narayan apparently released a wonderful report yesterday of an outbreak of “Enterobacter aerogenes Bloodstream Infection” at a CWM Intensive Care Unit because and read this:
"Ten neonates developed blood stream infection with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacter aerogenes in a neonatal intensive care unit in Fiji"
"The source of the outbreak was traced to a bag of contaminated normal saline in the ward, which was used for multiple patients. All isolates recovered from patients were indistinguishable from the bacteria recovered from the normal saline by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis," wrote S.A. Narayan and colleagues.
The researchers concluded: "The outbreak was controlled using simple infection control practices such as reinforcement of strict hand hygiene policy, provision of single use vials of normal saline, and strict aseptic technique for injections.."
Imagine “... a bag of contaminated saline in the ward, … was used for multiple patients” but not too worry they conclude, next time we will wash our hands, use one saline vial for each patient and dab some antiseptic prior to poking our people with injections. We becoming like Ethiopia now.
Oh and did you notice they forgot to address the 'root cause' in their report i.e. check the expiry date of the saline and test each batch before they wase between multiple users. Man we so lucky our people and bush lawyers are slow, this would have been a walk in the park, open shut matter.
This is what happens when we get reject doctors who come back from overseas, who could not make it in the first world.
And to top this all off, we will send our budding medical students to Cuba to learn how to make narcotics and commercialize this in Fiji to become the Official Organic Narcotics Garden of the South Pacific.
And then we get reject lawyers from the third world to bolster our illegal government judiciary.
Perhaps Frank needs some cyanide laced Cuban cigars to realign his brain cells and get his priorities right.
The Children of Fiji should be our PRIORITY, find the money and employ local doctors you MORONS.
Ref: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week 08-27-09
http://www.newsrx.com/article.php?articleID=1606022
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