Friday, August 22, 2003
BBC NEWS | Health | Ten years 'trapped in hospital'
BBC NEWS | Health | Ten years 'trapped in hospital':
"Bureaucratic wrangles meant a woman with learning difficulties was forced to spend 10 unnecessary years in a mental hospital.
Her ordeal started in 1990, when she was sent to the hospital for treatment.
She could have been transferred shortly afterwards to a private home, but there were arguments over who should pay - and she did not leave until 2001. "
Am I the only person upset by this? 10 years. She's getting 20k by the way. 2 grand a year. £5.30 a day fro every day she spent in a mental hosptial when she should have been moved to a nursing home.
Can you imagine how that feels? Of course not.
"Bureaucratic wrangles meant a woman with learning difficulties was forced to spend 10 unnecessary years in a mental hospital.
Her ordeal started in 1990, when she was sent to the hospital for treatment.
She could have been transferred shortly afterwards to a private home, but there were arguments over who should pay - and she did not leave until 2001. "
Am I the only person upset by this? 10 years. She's getting 20k by the way. 2 grand a year. £5.30 a day fro every day she spent in a mental hosptial when she should have been moved to a nursing home.
Can you imagine how that feels? Of course not.
