| N.J. hospitals made 376 errors in 2005 | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:01:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | TRENTON: New Jersey hospitals said that 57 patients died from preventable mistakes in 2005, and hundreds more were injured because of medical errors. The hospitals disclosed 376 medical mistakes for the year in the first report of the state Patient Safety Initiative, which was released Monday by the state Department of Health and Senior Services. The most common cause of mistakes was communication among staff members, blamed for 60 percent of the errors, while care planning, physical assessment and staff training each had a role in nearly four of every 10 mistakes. The Associated Press .... | |
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| | | Malegaon hospitals bursting at seams | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:09:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Malegaon: Blood-soaked bodies and limbs lay strewn all over the blast site in Malegaon where three bombs ripped through a crowded mosque killing 37 people on Thursday. As panicked devotees rushed for their lives through a narrow gate of a mosque-cum-graveyard after the blast, there was a near-stampede crushing many people including women and children. More than 100 people injured and Malegaon was clearly neither prepared nor equipped to handle a tragedy like this. The N N Wadia Hospital, the only municipal hospital of Malegaon, was bursting at its seams. Even in the emergency scenario, the operation theatre was locked and there was not one patient in the hospital. .The onus of treatment has now shifted to private hospitals where several victims have already been treated and many more are still waiting.... | |
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| | | INTERVIEW - Lebanon hospitals to run out of fuel in three days | | Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:59:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's hospitals, filling with wounded from a month-old war between Israel and Hizbollah, could stop functioning in two or three days when they run out of fuel, Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh said on Tuesday. Khalifeh said he was scouring the country for small amounts of fuel oil -- vital for surgical wards, refrigeration and incubators, but scarce since Israel bombed fuel storage tanks at the Jiyyeh power plant and Beirut's airport last month. "I'm looking for tiny deposits here and there, anywhere in the domestic supply. We can put it in barrels and ship it by lorry," Khalifeh told Reuters. "This way I think I can keep the hospitals running for two or three more days." Aid agencies have warned a looming fuel crisis threatens to paralyse power plants, water pumping stations and hospitals.... | |
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| | | Ban fast-food outlets from hospitals? | | Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 12:57:06 AM by Blog57 Team | | A recent op-ed by health guru Andrew Weil takes hospitals to task for letting fast-food restaurants inside. (Who hasn't noted the irony of having a McDonald's or Chick-fil-A in the Texas Medical Center?) Notes Weil: Hospital administrators apparently like them as a source of revenue and a draw for employees, visitors and even patients. A year and a half ago, when the head of the Cleveland Clinic bravely tried to get rid of the McDonald's at that hospital, staff members and visitors made it clear they liked having the franchise close by.... Expelling fast food from hospitals is an obvious step to better health, but suggest it and you run into the same tangle of inertia and apathy that has kept hospitals from serving patients appetizing and wholesome food -- and has instead allowed large food service corporations to put profit ahead of quality.... | |
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