Grandma Dies After Being Sent Home With Wrong Family

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Chidarat Huangsuwan Tuesday filed a complaint to police against Nakhon Pathom Hospital. Photo: Matichon

 

NAKHON PATHOM — A woman on Tuesday filed a complaint against Nakhon Pathom Hospital for mistakenly discharging her grandmother to the wrong family, which may have led to her death.

 

Chidarat Huangsuwan, said she took action after the hospital allowed her grandmother, 83-year-old Laor Suranan, to be taken home by another family on Saturday, a mistake she blames for her death the next day.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/calamity/2018/05/02/grandma-dies-after-being-sent-home-with-wrong-family/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-05-02

So the other family did not realise either.?

the stories get stranger and stranger everyday.

regards worgeordie

How on God's Earth .............? 

So it is the hospitals fault that nobody noticed not my granny!!

Silly buggers family take wrong granny home,l you couldnt make things like this up.

So poor old granny is dead, probably would have happened anyway.

At least it didn't turn out to be a Big Bad Wolf. If it can happen to Little Red Riding Hood, it could happen to anyone.

Usually it's babies that get switched at hospitals, but mixing up grannies sounds like a news story out of The Onion.

Upholding the value of the Thai close loving family traditional values.  

Nakhon Pathom hospital faces mistaken identity probe

By The Nation

 

 

Nakhon Pathom Hospital is under scrutiny for mistakenly discharging a terminally ill patient to the incorrect family home in Ratchaburi, before returning her to the hospital where she died.

 

Dr Pisit Sriprasert, inspector general of the Public Health Ministry, said on Wednesday that this was a case of mistaken identity regarding two female patients, who were both 83 years old, terminally ill and dependant on ventilated oxygen via a tracheotomy.

 

Pisit explained that when one of the women's conditions worsened and doctors requested her family's permission to enlarge the hole in her windpipe to increase oxygen intake, her three children made the decision to release her from hospital and allow her to die at home to limit further suffering.

 

Pisit said the two women were both placed in the emergency room at Nakhon Pathom Hospital in nearby beds and, as they were in a similar condition, the family mistook the wrong patient for their mother and she was then sent home to Bang Pong district in Ratchaburi at 7:30am on April 26.

 

The hospital realised at 9:40am that the wrong patient had been discharged and she was returned to the hospital at noon on the same day.

 

Pisit said that the officials responsible for discharging the patient would face punishment.

 

The case of mistaken identity came to light when Jidarat Huangsuwan, 27, filed a complaint with Muang Nakhon Pathom police on Tuesday.

 

Jidarat told the police that she believed that the hospital was responsible for the mistake that led to the death of her grandmother, La-or Suranan.

 

Jidarat said that when La-or was admitted to the hospital on April 22 her condition was severe and required close monitoring.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30344456

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-02

Just wonder how they are going to make this little problem go away with the big broom that sticks everything under the carpet. 
Hey, you! Watch out were you´re walking a just saw a slope on the floor.

Turns out asians all look the same to other asians as well

Edited May 2, 20188 yr by akirasan

Well, she was offered compensation, thats the important thing!

 

I can understand the mix up of an infant but I wonder if Thai hospitals regularly discharge patients who have a tracheotomy in place?

 

 

Are they still trying to become a "Medical Tourism Hub" ? 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The hospital realised at 9:40am that the wrong patient had been discharged

that means they only realized when the dr made his rounds. Not ,Not in the discharge process,  if i was a frequent patient in that hospital, and there were other options....

You couldn't make it up if you tried. 

3 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Upholding the value of the Thai close loving family traditional values.  

I'm sure yours is the epitome

Wrong baby possible wrong granny just bizarre.  

Maybe the other family thought there might be some insurance money

Well this did happen in Amazing Thailand.  simply Amazing.

  I hope this made the National News and the hospital has plenty of egg on

its staff, Doctors, and Administrations faces. 555  Totally sad  that the hopsital

got so lax.

Geezer

The staff probably chased the other family down the corridor shouting.."Here,take your granny!"

 

What else could a family possibly do under the full impact of Thai authority?

20 hours ago, worgeordie said:

So the other family did not realise either.?

the stories get stranger and stranger everyday.

regards worgeordie

Maybe all members of the other family were blind...

 

"Hey, look. They asked me to take that granny home..." - "Who's she?" - "Dunno." - Never mind. Just load her onto the truck..." 

 

 

Amazing Thailand indeed!

Edited May 3, 20188 yr by StayinThailand2much

19 hours ago, webfact said:

Pisit said the two women were both placed in the emergency room at Nakhon Pathom Hospital in nearby beds and, as they were in a similar condition, the family mistook the wrong patient for their mother

Still can't get my head round the fact they took the wrong woman home.

 

Their own mother.

 

I mean...just beggars belief.

Edited May 3, 20188 yr by Bluespunk

Sounds like the griswalds 

How can you take the wrong granny 

Maybe they put her on the roof of the car on the way home?? 

This country is hilarious it just gets   dumber and dumber. 

Okay, I can understand a family taking the wrong member home, and the hospital not bothering to make proper checks and releasing the patient to the wrong family. What I don't understand is the hospital actually being named, When will the hospital begin the lawsuit for defamation 

Just now, maddox41 said:

Maybe they put her on the roof of the car on the way home??

 

Believe it or not, that's what a Polish family that I know in Germany did to a dead relative. And the car was stolen when they made a refreshment stop along the way!

21 hours ago, worgeordie said:

So the other family did not realise either.?

the stories get stranger and stranger everyday.

regards worgeordie

the stories here have more turns and intrigue then an American TV soap opera.

My m8 Bruce who I mentioned re busking is in Oz after his mother died  , she was 96 and he said when he visited her the last time over , he would go to her bed side and give her a kiss then he got " Get off who are you yer bastard ? "

20 hours ago, HiSoLowSoNoSo said:

Are they still trying to become a "Medical Tourism Hub" ? 

Obviously.

 

And, it seems that they are now including day excursions, with complete strangers, as a part of the package

21 hours ago, webfact said:

the hospital realised at 9:40am that the wrong patient had been discharged and she was returned to the hospital at noon on the same day.

The case of mistaken identity came to light when Jidarat Huangsuwan, 27, filed a complaint with Muang Nakhon Pathom police on Tuesday.

"came to light" - does this mean that the hospital attempted to hush up the mistake? The Huangsuwan family wouldn't know about the mistake and cause problems. No doubt the hospital staff would remain silent.

For a country that relies on memorization, and not deduction, it seems they at least would have memorized her face, or height...