I just could NOT believe this!! I can’t imagine after a C section – MAJOR SURGERY – that this happened!! Article found HERE.
Mother told to clean own room after caesarean
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/28512/20100822/
Mother-of-two Elin Andersson has highlighted staffing shortage problems at a maternity ward in Sundsvall in northern Sweden after she was asked to clean out her own hospital room just two days after giving birth by caesarean section.
Every time Andersson required medicine she had to call staff to remind them, she told local newspaper Sundsvalls Tidning. The new baby’s father meanwhile was requested to aid in the care of his partner.
Two days after the operation, the recovering mum decided she was ready to go home.
”That was when the midwife said I had one final task to perform. Then she went and got a big white laundry bag and asked me to clean out the room and the bed where I had lain,” she told the newspaper.
Two midwives at the Sundsvall maternity ward admitted that Elin Andersson painted an accurate picture of their workplace.
”She describes precisely those bits that we don’t have time for,” said Gunnel Westerlund.
”Medical safety always comes first and you can’t leave a mother while she’s giving birth. It’s true that we sometimes need to make use of the parents and that doesn’t feel good at all.”
What do you guys think? Me? I think – YIKES!!
I think its RIDICULOUS! I have no words.. just ridiculous! I hope that mom has time to heal and recover at home!!
Crazy. Do they have universal health care? Sounds like it to me.
Here in the states I had to request the nurses bring me a spray bottle of disinfectant and some paper towels because janitorial had been into my room twice and I was still finding blood all over the bathroom – in the tub, on the walls and the commode, on the door…I’d just rather do it right myself than have others come in numerous times and spread it out more!
That’s horrible! No one should have to go through something like that.