'Our children deserve better'
"Prisoners in Northern Ireland are treated better than blood cancer patients" says a Belfast man whose daughter battled Hodgkin’s Lymphoma for years before her death.
Sean, who founded Eimear’s Wish to raise awareness of stem cell donation in NI, has again hit out at the “dark ages” facilities for patients at 10 North in Belfast City Hospital amid little progress to improve the conditions there.“First of all you are getting an elevator up 10 flights and you are going in with your loved one and their immune system is totally at risk. You’re in an elevator with maybe 20-30 people.
“The facilities were non existent - you relied on staff’s generosity to even let you go into the kitchen and make yourself a cup of tea.“That’s unfair because your loved-one might wake up, haven’t eaten for days, at three or four in the morning saying ‘I’d love a bit of toast’ and you had to go and ask for permission to get that.
“I don’t understand how health workers get bank holidays. Your illness doesn’t go away every patient in there dreaded the holidays because they knew their doctors weren’t going to be available.. they weren’t going to get the same care.“There’s actual university research that shows the environment you are treated in has a large part to do with your recovery - and you’re locked in there.“The majority of the rooms weren’t ensuite...
They told us the regional haematology service for Northern Ireland contains 28 mixed beds for people aged 16 and older and most stay as inpatients from 4-6 weeks, with some spending “several months” there.
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