When I first read the story of 12 year old Dylan Campbell, I was saddened for the family, and for Dylan. But I didn’t see how responsible the hospital was for his condition. See, this is the first explanation, as written at CBC.ca:
Dylan Campbell had the routine tonsillectomy in November and was released. However, about five days later, his mother rushed him back after he started coughing up blood, according to Morris Swan Shannacappo, grand chief of the Southern Chiefs Organization, an advocacy group for First Nations people in southern Manitoba.
The boy has been on life-support since then, completely dependent on caregivers.
Sounds like something happened at home and the boy was rushed to the hospital when it was already too late.
But then I read what happened when the boy arrived at the hospital:
The father said his son suffered a cardiac arrest five days after the surgery, just shortly after his mother rushed him back to the hospital because he was coughing up blood and having trouble breathing.
Dylan’s mother, Sandra Campbell, said the only thing hospital staff did for her son before his heart stopped was to give him a pan to collect the blood.
“He was puking – we had half a basin of blood clots and vomit,” Sandra said. “He was gasping for air.”
Sandra said because her son was flailing around, hospital staff restrained him, using so much force he was left with bruising on his arms and shoulders.
Jerry said when he showed up and saw what the hospital staff were doing to his son, he became so angry that security staff were called to take him away.
Hospital staff brought Jerry back to the emergency department a few minutes later.
“I can hear my wife screaming, `He’s gone, he’s gone,”‘ he recalls. “Now they were rushing to do something.”
Despite the efforts of doctors, a letter from Health Sciences Centre told the family that Dylan is “in a vegetative state . . . totally dependant on his caregivers to meet all his needs.”
What. An. Outrage.
This is despicable.
This child has a heart attack and the hospital staff do nothing.
This is the treatment the common people get. Brock Lesnar had to flee Canadian healthcare when he grew ill. He said it nearly killed him.
But, if you are one of the elite, you get different treatment:
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams will travel to the United States this week where he will undergo heart surgery, according to the Globe and Mail. However, Williams will have surgery south of the border because the treatment he needs is not available in his province.
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The Canadian Press notes that the Premier’s surgery in the US has caused a fierce online health care debate because Newfoundland and Labrador has attempted to restore confidence in their health care system after several botched breast cancer tests.
Provincial Liberal Leader Yvonne Jones offered the Premier her best wishes but demanded that Williams owes the public an explanation on what he needs and why he’s traveling to the US for surgery.
Tell yourself, liberals, that this isn’t Canada and it will be different here. Then explain to me and everyone else why the first thing Congress did was to exclude themselves from the health care bill they want the rest of us subjected to.
This is how it is. When Castro was ill, doctors from Spain were flown in.
If these socialist health care systems are so fabulous, why do the leaders there have to keep looking to other countries to make them healthier?
Cross posted at Right Wing News.
Oh yes, I just can’t wait till healthcare here in the good ol USA is as excellent as in Canada and Cuba….
Oh yes, I just can’t wait till healthcare here in the good ol USA is as excellent as in Canada and Cuba….
This is Dylan Campbell’s Dad,Its about time we do something about what is happening in our emergency rooms across this country we call CANADA and there crime as gone too far,they need to be fired from there jobs and charged for there crimes.so we will not give up till they have been jail for there crime.If it was there kids that were there,they would have done there BEST for them.I hope they are happy now that my son is in there hospital in a veg state.
This is Dylan Campbell’s Dad,Its about time we do something about what is happening in our emergency rooms across this country we call CANADA and there crime as gone too far,they need to be fired from there jobs and charged for there crimes.so we will not give up till they have been jail for there crime.If it was there kids that were there,they would have done there BEST for them.I hope they are happy now that my son is in there hospital in a veg state.
This type of situation sounds like my worst nightmare. You can kill me and my aging parents and grandparents, but kids? This is really what goes on up there in Canada, eh? I’ve run in to numerous Canadians who hate the medical system up there. I’ll keep what we’ve already got, thanks.
This type of situation sounds like my worst nightmare. You can kill me and my aging parents and grandparents, but kids? This is really what goes on up there in Canada, eh? I’ve run in to numerous Canadians who hate the medical system up there. I’ll keep what we’ve already got, thanks.
If I were the parent I’d like to be put in a room with a baseball bat and every health care provider responsible for this sent in…one by one…
If I were the parent I’d like to be put in a room with a baseball bat and every health care provider responsible for this sent in…one by one…
Yes, medical workers are not enough competent nowadays, that is the reason of many acidents happening in hospitals….
Yes, medical workers are not enough competent nowadays, that is the reason of many acidents happening in hospitals….