So how bad is it

[Chunkydunks]

I had no idea where to put this so if its in the wrong spot feel free to move it.

I was talking to my SIL yesterday and she was telling me about one of her friend's experience with Royal North Shore. Is the hospital as bad as they say. She said she had to have a c-sect and was taken from the 10th floor right down to the bottom and wheeled past the kitchen and rubbish on her way. There were apparently holes in her room and things were just horrid according to her.

So is it really that bad? If so why do you think they're keeping it open?

[Looshkin]

Well I don't know about the maternity part, although I have also heard some nasty stuff..
The part my sister was taken to- in an ambulance and then admitted (she
worked in north sydney at the time)

Was horrible.
The staff were horrible.
The room was horrible.
Horrible horrible.
I felt so sorry for her.

They tried to tell her she was fine, after not working out what was wrong with her, sent her home after 2 horrible days where she was waiting an entire hour and more for a nurse to answer the buzzer and constantly told her she didn't need pain relief..

When she went to RPA 3 days later as the same thing happened again they found gall stones (apparently rns are saying 19 year olds 'dont get gall stones' as an excuse for not even doing an ultrasound..) , booked her in with a surgeon and removed them the next day.

[reAllytee]

Sadly there are a quite a few hospitals in Syd that are like this so shockingly RNS isnt alone

This is the sad state of our hospitals !

[Chunkydunks]

Wow that is sad. You'd thing Sydney being the biggest city would have better hospitals. Nowra sounds better than that and Nowra ain't that flash.

[Looshkin]

Yeah, a LOT more money needs to be put into public hospitals.

Not just to upgrade the really old buildings and rooms.

But for extra staff - I found out that after a surgery at RPA that had no bed for be after the surgery so they sent me home the same day.

So disappointing because I had the same surgery for endo 2 years ago and RPA was excellent, the nurses were great.
Seems a lot has changed in the last 2 years.

Apparently the 'no beds' thing is not as it seems, they physically have the beds, but do not have the nurses to look after the beds.. hence the waiting 45 minutes for someone to call when you press the buzzer.
I find that really scary.

Oh and RPA shut down the ward I stayed on (which is probably why I had no where to stay after the last surgery)

It was the only 'womans' ward and when I stayed there, it was basically the ward that breast/cervical cancer /gynie patients stayed in after surgery.

Now there is NO womans ward that isn't for maternity.. which is incredibly sad.. but they had to shut it down as they just couldn't afford to staff it.
Which means hospitals have empty unused wards also.

I really hope this government injects a lot of money into schools and hospitals and fast!
I think these 2 things have been let go to the point it's critical and both are so so important to any community IMO.

[Chunkydunks]

Thats really sad and explains a lot to me.

My Pop was in RPA at the end of 07. He'd been transferred from Wagga for what was meant to be a straight forward operation. The hospital at Wagga would have done it but the surgeon didn't have any experience in doing the op where it was needed, the surgeon at RPA did. Once he got to RPA every stall tacktic was pulled out and in the end Pop passed away while waiting for that simple surgery. it was devestating. My Nan was told every day that Pop would get his operation that day and every day for some reason or another they pushed it back.