By Christina Jewett and Robin Fields
November 23, 2008
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JOURNAL EDITORIAL STAFF | Published: August 22, 2008
Once again, this state’s mental-health system has terribly failed. A mental patient at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro died some time after workers had left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding or helping him use the bathroom — even as they watched TV, played cards and chatted on a cell phone just a few feet away. That psychiatric hospital, and the state mental health-care system in general, must improve its care.
TAMPA — In the wake of two recent suicides at Tampa General Hospital, federal regulators are threatening to stop Medicare funding to the hospital, citing serious safety problems in its psychiatric unit.
Regulators found psychiatric patients to be in “immediate jeopardy” in an investigation prompted by the suicides. The hospital has until Sept. 6 to fix the problems or lose funding, said the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Radovan Karadzic grew a long, white beard to conceal his identity and even managed to openly practice alternative medicine while in hiding, officials said Tuesday in revealing details of the war crimes fugitive’s capture after a decade on the run.
Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs, was arrested Monday night in a Belgrade suburb, officials said. A judge has ordered his transfer to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to face genocide charges, war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said.
Karadzic has three days to appeal the ruling. His lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, said he will launch the process to fight extradition on the last day, Friday, to thwart authorities’ wishes for his immediate transfer.
Manzoor Qadir
LAHORE: A number of patients at the Punjab Institute of Mental Health (PIMH) have attempted suicide, as the executive director changed the modus operandi of treatment owing to non-availability of quality anti-depressants, allege doctors on the condition of anonymity on Sunday.
Lately, nine patients-Nadeem Mubeen, Zulqarnain Hyder, Irfan, Zaman, Tazeem, Bushra Bibi, Nazim Ali, Rahat Jabeen and Tariq Nazir- tried to end their lives.
Earlier, two patients also committed suicide but the administration instead of taking preventive measures tried to hush-up the matter.
Eyewitness News
KINGS COUNTY (WABC) — Video from a surveillance camera at a Brooklyn hospital shows a woman dying on the floor of a psychiatric emergency-room while staffers initially ignore her.
The video shows the 49-year-old woman keeling out of her chair at 5:32 a.m. and lying facedown on the floor, then thrashing, before going still. An hour passed before a fellow patient gets the attention of a staffer.
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation reported the incident surrounding the woman’s death to a number of health oversight agencies and law enforcement authorities.
The jury at an inquest into the death of a man from Swansea has heard he died while being restrained by four members of staff at a psychiatric hospital.
Kurt Howard, 32, who had been detained under the Mental Health Act, died in 2002 at the city’s Cefn Coed Hospital.
In the weeks before his death, Mr Howard claimed he was in the SAS, that he was a barrister and a gynaecologist, the inquest jury was told.
The coroner said a probe into the death had taken “a considerable time”.
This was why the inquest was taking place six years after Mr Howard’s death, added Swansea coroner Philip Rogers.