Patient dies after bed catches fire at Bloemfontein hospital

[ForceFate]

Thank Google.

Was too lazy to do it...

Opening a new tab is a lot of work

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Anyone notice these and think of a possible cause:

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

"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.

Wonder if she sneaked a cigarette? With oxygen around, that would cause an explosion.

 

[Defiler]

So, arsonist in the hospital?

Spontaneous combustion.

 

[Defiler]

Anyone notice these and think of a possible cause:

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

"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.

Wonder if she sneaked a cigarette? With oxygen around, that would cause an explosion.

Sounds plausible, especially the ignition of said matches in the vicinity of pure oxygen...

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Anyone notice these and think of a possible cause:

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

"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.

Wonder if she sneaked a cigarette? With oxygen around, that would cause an explosion.

And not a fire

Next

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Sounds plausible, especially the ignition of said matches in the vicinity of pure oxygen...

Smoking is hazardous to your health.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

And not a fire

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Lighting a match in a rich oxygen atmosphere will cause an explosion and subsequent fire. Hence the bang heard. and bed on fire.

You don't know much about science, do you? Yet you jump in boots first and comment on things you know nothing about every time.

 

[Polymathic]

probably trying to get a quick smoke while the nurse was away

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Lighting a match in a rich oxygen atmosphere will cause an explosion and subsequent fire. Hence the bang heard. and bed on fire.

You don't know much about science, do you? Yet you jump in boots first and comment on things you know nothing about every time.

A cigarette with TB, that would burn

 

[Defonotaltaccount]

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

And I was called tHe SoN of a gardeeenA.
My mOthER was callED KItchEn GuRL.

 

[Defonotaltaccount]

Lighting a match in a rich oxygen atmosphere will cause an explosion and subsequent fire. Hence the bang heard. and bed on fire.

You don't know much about science, do you? Yet you jump in boots first and comment on things you know nothing about every time.

Do you have even a single source to back this statement up ?
Show us the parts per million analysis in the room.
At the time of the incident.
Thanks.

 

[Bill Clitnon]

When I saw the headline I already knew it would be Pelonomi. Anyone familiar with Bloem will know what a cesspit that place is.

 

[Defonotaltaccount]

When I saw the headline I already knew it would be Pelonomi. Anyone familiar with Bloem will know what a cesspit that place is.

I mean.
Anyone familiar with Bloem, will tell you what a cesspit.
That place is.

 

[Adenoid Hynkel]

What is a professional nurse?

A hooker!

 

[ForceFate]

Do you have even a single source to back this statement up ?
Show us the parts per million analysis in the room.
At the time of the incident.
Thanks.

My understanding is that Oxygen on its own is not explosive. However, Oxygen rich environment can catch fire quickly and burn vigorously.

Based on contents of the article alone, the patient may have taken Oxygen prongs off and left them on the bed. Meanwhile, Oxygen was flowing and was left to flow, getting trapped under the patient's sheets.

Noticing that he was alone, he may have created a canopy with his knees while the prongs were off and pumping Oxygen into the canopy. Then I think he tried to light a cigarette, at which point the sheets and clothes caught fire, and the "bang" heard by the nurse was fire spreading quickly and sound of hot air escaping from under the canopy. Furthermore, patient may have cranked up Oxygen flow prior to lighting the cig in order to try to expel the fumes. Far fetched and highly unlikely but that's how I theorise it.

 

[ForceFate]

A hooker!

 

[RonSwanson]

Oxygen does not need an open flame to cause combustion, all that it needs is an ember. Oxygen basically makes non-flammable materials highly flammable. I recall doing this experiment in standard 6 science class:

Next is a video on why smoking while on oxygen is probably not the greatest idea for good health:

 

[konfab]

And I was called tHe SoN of a gardeeenA.
My mOthER was callED KItchEn GuRL.

I have been banned from saying that

 

[mojoman]

I have been banned from saying that

Are some of the cadres getting offended...

 

[Mirai]

So they have unqualified nurses working at the hospitals.

Makes sense.

They have ENAs or enrolled nurse auxiliaries. They have lower levels of staff who only perform certain duties, such as bringing food or bedpan, washing the patient, assisting with going to the bathroom, changing the bedsheets, etc.