Patient dies after bed catches fire at Bloemfontein hospital

[rvZA]

A 47-year-old female patient died after her bed caught fire at Pelonomi Academic Hospital in Bloemfontein on Thursday, the Free State health department has said.

Department spokesperson Mondli Mvambi said the patient had undergone a hernia repair and loop ileostomy on Wednesday and was on oxygen prongs.

He said abdominal TB was discovered intraoperatively, and that she had been isolated in a cubicle for infection prevention control.

"On 11 August, at around 00:50, the professional nurse on duty heard a loud noise and on inspection realised that patient’s bed was on fire.

"The professional nurse summoned help, and the patient was removed from the cubicle, and the fire was put out. Used matches were found in the cubicle next to the burnt bed," he said.

Patient dies after bed catches fire at Bloemfontein hospital | News24

A 47-year-old patient died after her bed caught fire at Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein on Thursday. The Free State Department of Health said used matches had been found in the cubicle next to the burnt bed.

www.news24.com

 

[RedViking]

professional nurse

What is a professional nurse?

 

[IssiAmd]

What is a professional nurse?

Would assume a qualified nurse?

 

[RedViking]

Would assume a qualified nurse?

So they have unqualified nurses working at the hospitals.

Makes sense.

 

[ForceFate]

So they have unqualified nurses working at the hospitals.

Makes sense.

I think registered nurse.

 

[Fulcrum29]

I think registered nurse.

This, which would include your sisters.

 

[Temujin]

Used matches were found in the cubicle next to the burnt bed

So, arsonist in the hospital?

 

[RedViking]

Now they can rename it

Polony Research Hospital

 

[RedViking]

This, which would include your sisters.

@ForceFate 's sisters all professional nurses?

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

So, arsonist in the hospital?

I was hoping it be more of an exorcism

 

[Thor]

Murdered?

 

[ForceFate]

This, which would include your sisters.

Does anyone know why they're called sisters?

 

[ForceFate]

@ForceFate 's sisters all professional nurses?

 

[RedViking]

Does anyone know why they're called sisters?

Probably because they used to be nuns.

 

[Kieppie]

Does anyone know why they're called sisters?

Probably from the religious connotation. Sisters use to minister to the ill

 

[ForceFate]

Probably because they used to be nuns.

Probably from the religious connotation. Sisters use to minister to the ill

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you

 

[konfab]

Does anyone know why they're called sisters?

Comes from antiquity.

Hospitals in the European tradition came from monasteries with monks taking the role of doctors and nuns performing the role of nurses. Nuns took the vows of service to the church,, which made all of them sisters to each other as the monastery they belonged to effectively became their family, with the head of the monastery being the father (or mother in the case of a nunnery, but nunneries were always subservient to the monastery)

Interestingly, the word hospital was actually a lot more general. It was effectively the church's public service arm.

In the Medieval period the term hospital encompassed hostels for travellers, dispensaries for poor relief, clinics and surgeries for the injured, and homes for the blind, lame, elderly, and mentally ill. Monastic hospitals developed many treatments, both therapeutic and spiritual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_medicine_of_Western_Europe#Hospital_system

 

[Fulcrum29]

Does anyone know why they're called sisters?

It depends, generally, on whether they are registered nurses, or nursing sisters, who use the sister designation. Some places don't use 'sisters', we do.

 

[ForceFate]

Comes from antiquity.

Hospitals in the European tradition came from monasteries with monks taking the role of doctors and nuns performing the role of nurses. Nuns took the vows of service to the church,, which made all of them sisters to each other as the monastery they belonged to effectively became their family, with the head of the monastery being the father (or mother in the case of a nunnery, but nunneries were always subservient to the monastery)

Interestingly, the word hospital was actually a lot more general. It was effectively the church's public service arm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_medicine_of_Western_Europe#Hospital_system

Thanks.

 

[RedViking]

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you

Thank Google.