Sunday, October 7, 2012

UK's NHS effectively murdering thousands every year, leaving elderly to die of thirst, hunger, bed sores, untreated infections. Who will be arrested and go to prison for these crimes?

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10/6/12, "Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards," UK Telegraph, L. Donnelly

"Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today....

There were 558 cases where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of severe dehydration in hospitals;

* 78 hospital and 39 care home patients were killed by bedsores, while a further 650 people who died had their presence noted on their death certificates;

* 21,696 were recorded as suffering from septicemia when they died, a condition which experts say is most often associated with infected wounds.

The records, from the Office for National Statistics, follow a series of scandals of care of the elderly, with doctors forced to prescribe patients with drinking water or put them on drips to make sure they do not become severely dehydrated .

Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said the statistics were a grim and shaming reflection of 21st century Britain."...via Free Republic


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