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The short staff issues at the hospital needs to be addressed, along with the issues of management. Am very concerned because am not a big shot who can fly to another country for treatment so I rely on the public hospital for treatment. <\/p>

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I recently experienced 2 different situations on 2 different wards and it’s very concerning. My mother spent a month on surgical ward and through frequent visitations I have observed the extremely shortage of nurses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will come in the morning and see a nurse then I will be back at 8 in the night and see the same nurse. <\/p>

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My mom even told me she had to sit in her wet pamper with number 2 in it because someone was dying so the 2 nurses that was working had to rush to that patients room. This is ridiculous, no way a ward with 18 patients should have 2 nurses working. That’s not safe and after speaking with a few nurses I realized they are burnt out and over worked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I once heard a Manger saying the nurses are always calling in sick or going on sick leave but when someone is over worked, what do you expect the outcome would be? Of course they will get sick at a faster rate. I wonder what the minister of health is doing to correct this issue, this could cause someone their life. <\/p>

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The nurses have a lot on their hands and I have seen nurses working 16 hour shift just to make up for the shortage and I think this can be very dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This situation needs to be addressed, not to mention an over worked nurse is prone to numerous mistakes. And the public already don’t like nurses so the simplest mistake will be blown out of proportion. My heart goes out to these nurses, this issues need to be fixed.<\/p>

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Another situation I have heard is the managers are telling the nurses when they can or can’t go on vacation  which is totally ridiculous. Nurses are already burnt out and they are still being denied Vacation time while other nures who am guessing are friends with upper management, gets to go on vacation numerous times in a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This favoritism and unfairness need to stop. When I tell you the unfairness some of these nurses are facing at that hospital and then we wonder why some have this attitude. Mr Joseph hospital management needs a shake up, no one is advocating for the nurses and they are the backbone of our hospital. If there no nurses there is no hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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