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    Während eines NHS-Krankenhausaufenthalts befallen Maden den Fuß einer Frau aus Kent


    Während eines NHS-Krankenhausaufenthalts befallen Maden den Fuß einer Frau aus Kent

    https://www.mylondon.news/news/real-life/maggots-infest-kent-womans-foot-30077049

    Von Empty_Sherbet96

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    1. Empty_Sherbet96 on

      >Whilst an investigation is still ongoing, it is believed that during the warmer summer months when Linda was in hospital, windows were likely to have been open.

      >As a result, she and her family believe that while her wound was left without a cover, a fly had laid its eggs inside.

      >After Linda’s foot was left uncovered for a few days, her family say a new dressing was put on and the maggots hatched.

      >When the bandage was then uncovered, maggots were seen to be present in the wound.

      >Mother-of-four Linda said she could feel the ‘nasty’ fly larvae wriggling around in her foot.

      >She said: “**I thought, Where the hell did they come from?’** because I didn’t have maggots before. It was very odd, considering it’s a hospital… I could feel them. It was a tickling feeling and when he took the bandage off it was full of maggots looking at you. I wasn’t expecting that.

      >“He covered it back over and said, ‘Speak to the medical staff the next day’. By then, the maggots had got bigger.”

      >It wasn’t until the following day that the maggots were removed.

      This woman is remarkably calm considering there are MAGGOTS inside her FOOT. If i was in this situation you’d hear me screaming from the Scottish Highlands for a week straight

    2. infintetimesthecharm on

      Maggots are a legit medical technique to remove necrotic tissue from a wound. They only eat diseased dead tissue.

    3. masterblaster0 on

      Very common thing. It’s like people with severe frostbite often get maggots feeding on the dead tissue. Gross but perfectly normal.

    4. honkymotherfucker1 on

      People saying maggots are used to clean wounds are completely missing the point. It’s a consensual, controlled process when that happens. They also have maggots kept for it, they don’t go fishing them out of bins or some shit.

      This is incredibly unhygienic and shouldn’t have happened.

    5. merryman1 on

      I like that people found maggots in a wound and their first response was to… Cover it up and suggest leaving it until tomorrow…????

    6. Secret_Association58 on

      My grandma was in hospital a few months back. This is why I went and sat with her all day. Nurses are far too stretched to do an effective job at no fault of their own.

    8. Medway_Mod on

      Don’t be Medway hospital

      Don’t be Medway hospital

      Don’t be Medway hospital

      *clicks link*

      FUCK!

    9. Thetwitchingvoid on

      Aaahh, I see the NHS is going back to ancient traditions for treatment!

      Fantastic!

    10. Tomoshaamoosh on

      Everything I’ve heard about Medway has been diabolical. I witnessed some horrible shit during my training in East Kent trust too. I feel really bad for the population of Kent in terms of the health service. Its a beautiful place to live, but they are just not well served for healthcare at all.

    12. Crowf3ather on

      Of course the answer is that we need to pay doctors and nurses more, we need to reward them for allowing this lack of care and culture of negligence to continue unabated.

      Or maybe instead of funneling money into more pay, we need to actually restructure the NHS into something that vaguely resembles real accountability.

    13. KekistansLostChild on

      Our glorious NHS must be defended at all costs. If only the government sacrificed more of our money to it this wouldn’t have happened.

    14. superbly__mediocre on

      These NHS stories sre making the UK look more and more like a third world country.

    15. manuka_miyuki on

      that sort of experience would traumatise me from ever touching an NHS hospital ever again. and i’ve had countless degrading hospital experiences.

      that’s fucking nauseating. absolutely zero excuse for this level of negligence. the fact that there’s people here trying to justify this is repulsive.

    16. jasilucy on

      Before my dad died, a few months ago he had an ulcer at the bottom of his foot that I kept having to remind nurses about. I visited daily to the dressing just hanging off and I had to pick about 20 pubes and hair out of it then place my own dressing I brought in myself.

      I always prompted the nurses about it but it was always forgotten about so I just gave up and dressed it myself daily after cleaning it. I would still remind them daily about it but I didn’t hold my breath. This was at Gloucester Hospital in an ORTHOPAEDIC ward

    17. Whipit-Whipitgood on

      I can feel a “compo face” coming on. For those of you who are whining about “flies land on dog shit” maybe if people cleaned up after emptying their mutts it wouldn’t so much of a problem. At least the lady had a hospital bed, some never make it that far.

    18. PoliticalShrapnel on

      My mum is 73. This woman is 80 but looks over 100, jesus. Poor lady.

    19. splat_monkey on

      Good old kent nhs, not surprised in the slightest given the area.

    20. Common-Rain9224 on

      Maggots don’t just infest normal feet. She clearly already had necrotic feet. I don’t think it’s the hospital’s fault – flies will locate necrotic tissue and lay eggs. If they didn’t deal with the situation immediately then this is poor care however.

      I’ve seen patients coming in with maggots in wounds from home. It just happens, disgusting though it is. One man took off his hat in A+E and maggots fell out onto the floor from his fungating scalp tumour.

    22. chaosandturmoil on

      tells you everything you need to know about an underfunded and mismanaged NHS

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