Northern Regional Denies Another Accusation of Neglect

On October thirtieth, the Northern Regional Hospital faced sharp criticism after a public officer accused its emergency team of neglecting his eleven-year-old son’s open gash. Just fourteen days later, the hospital is under fire again. This time, the allegation is that a firefighter died after being denied treatment for a broken leg in a cast. Reports claim he sought help for discomfort but was sent home, only to be rushed back later when his condition worsened. He was then referred to K.H.M.H., where he passed away. However, the hospital denies these claims, calling the social media report inaccurate. Regional Health Manager Feliz Rhaburn told News Five that the patient didn’t have a broken leg but an injury, and was treated and given home care instructions, which apparently weren’t followed.

 

Felix Rhaburn, Regional Health Manager, N.R.H.

“We have been made aware that there are certain is supposed circulating whereby the alleged father to the individual having a green. They had fever, a broken leg, and I’m not sure where it was in front of . But that’s somewhat very erroneous. The patient had none of the above and patient had other conditions that we need to try to manage here, and we had to escalate it to cage image for further management and unfortunately, the individual passed away. The individual suffered an injury which was not an open wound. So the mere fact that it could have developed into an infection is not really logical.  And the individual was being seen and does have a history in regards to the same complaint. The physician indicated certain orders which were not strictly alert to from what we understand. And that resulted in the complication that, resulted in on time in the untimely death. We are not really blaming anyone. We think that the whole situation was unfortunate and it definitely highlights to whereby we need to be more diligent as an institution in regards to giving clear outpatient or  at home  indications. We only have records of his.  Visits here, and we are not really certain of what happened at his home and so forth.”