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49 year old patient dies in Kings County Hospital in NY

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I'M SO LIVID! PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT THEMSEVES ANYMORE AND MOST PEOPLE DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEMSEVES EITHER! THIS REALLY ANGERS ME AND ME POSTING THIS VIDEO IS ONE OF MY WAYS TO FIGHT IT!
(July 1)(New York) A sad death in New York City. Surveillance cameras at a city-run psychiatric hospital emergency room in Brooklyn (Kings Hospital) capture a woman falling from a chair, writhing on the floor and dying. Hospital staff and other patients watch and do nothing for more than an hour.
One guard doesn't even leave his chair, rolling it around the corner to stare at the body. The New York Civil Liberties Union sued the facility, Kings County Hospital Center, last year over the way it treats psychiatric patients. ((Donna Lieberman, NY Civil Liberties Union)) "A chamber of filth, dec
ay, indifference and danger and seeks an end to the culture of abuse and neglect where patients are regularly ignored and those that dare advocate for themselves are punished with forcible injections of psychotropic drugs."The city's medical examiner has yet to determine why the woman, 49-year old E
smin green, died on June 20th. She had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours. ((Rob Cohen, Lawyer Suing Hospital)) "There is a culture of indifference to patients that permeates every aspect of KCHC's psychiatric care." The city-run agency that runs the hospital released a statement
, saying: "We are shocked and distressed by the situation. It is clear that some of our employees failed to act based on our compassionate standards of care. (The hospital has) directed the suspension and termination of those involved." ---- Alan Aviles, Kings County Hospital Center The surveillance
video eventually shows a member of the medical staff attending to Green. But it's too late, she had already died. A shocking video shows a woman dying on the floor in the psych ward at Kings County Hospital, while people around her, including a security guard, did nothing to help. After an hour,
another mental patient finally got the attention of the indifferent hospital workers, according to the tape, obtained by the Daily News. Worse still, the surveillance tape suggests hospital staff may have falsified medical charts to cover the utter lack of treatment provided Esmin Green before she
died. "Thank God for the videotape because no one would have believed this could have happened," said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "There's a clear possibility of criminal wrongdoing with regard to recordkeeping, and that has to be investigated." The
city Department of Investigation is part of a sweeping probe that has brought some changes to the ward known as G Building. A federal suit filed last year in Brooklyn alleged neglect and abuse of mental patients at the hospital. The suit sparked an investigation by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's civ
il rights unit before the June 19 death. Two different security guards spotted Green, a native of the island of Jamaica, prone on the floor and did nothing, the tape shows. They have been fired, along with four other staffers. Green, 49, taken to the unit for "agitation," keels over out of her cha
ir at 5:32a.m., according to the time stamp on the video. She had been sitting about 3feet from an observation window. Two other patients were in the room. Green is lying facedown on the floor, her legs splayed, when a security guard strolls by at 5:53 a.m., looks at her for about 20 seconds and th
en walks away. She is writhing on the floor, thrashing her legs, about 6 a.m., when her medical chart contends she was "awake, up and about, went to the bathroom." Green rolls on her back at 6:04a.m. She stops moving at 6:08 a.m., but two minutes later a security guard pushed his chair into camera
view. He never gets out of the chair, but looks at Green and scoots away. A female patient who was in and out of the room finally brings a clinic staffer to check the woman and a crash cart is summoned. The medical chart claims she was "sitting quietly in [the] waiting room" at 6:20 a.m., althoug
h she was already dead. The cause of death is still under investigation. "We are shocked and distressed by this situation," the Health and Hospitals Corp. said in a statement. BY JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, June 30th 2008, 11:32 PM A 49 year old mental patient at Kings County
Hospital in Brooklyn, was left on the floor to die. This video was edited, by whom, I do not know. I do know that a more complete version of this tape, shows a male security guard walking over to the patient, and simply walking away. Moments later, a male Dr. does the same thing. News reports indic
ate that the Dr. was fired, and the nurses and security guards were suspended.

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