My Mother has been in and out of the NRGH several times this year. The final time she was discharged she was taken by Medi-Van to her care home and then 7 hours later I found her bleeding out on the bathroom floor of her Care Home in Qualicum Beach. Her eye was dislodged and the skin torn from her face. No one knew she was there.
I found her at 10 a.m. The Care Aids did not know she had returned and NRGH never notified me or the Care Home. Security Cameras at her Care Home show her being brought in at 3 a.m. to Assisted Living. She has severe dementia and would have no idea where she is or was.
I have been waiting for a bed for her in fulltime care since December 2023. NRGH said they did not have a bed for her so she was discharged. Next, she was taken to Comox Hospital where she stayed for 2 months before a bed was found. The Nanaimo Hospital is over run there is no space. Nurses and Doctors are overworked and the care is lacking at all levels. The emergency room sometimes looks like a war zone.
My mother underwent emergency surgery in Comox to attach her eye and then to Saanich to replace her skin. My mother is 94 years old. No one deserves this kind of treatment. Our medical system needs a full over haul. We need a new hospital in Nanaimo and we need one in the Parksville/ Qualicum Beach area. There is certainly enough population to warrant this.
Spend the money where it is needed. The government is very good at making announcements on how wonderful they are but I do not see the money being put towards what is needed. Every day the NDP leaders are on the news saying all these wonderful things they are doing and every day more and more people are dying because of the neglect of the health care system. If there were enough beds and hospitals this would have saved thousands of dollars. My mother is only one of thousands of people this is happening to. If the government really wanted to help and they cared – they would be building hospitals, care homes, mental hospitals and rehab centers.