Hospital stops providing ice for patients’ water jugs due to budget cuts
A hospital has blamed budget cuts for its decision to stop providing ice for patients’ water jugs. Michelle Lewis discovered the move while visiting Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge, when she asked for ice for her friend’s water on an oncology ward.
Mrs Lewis requested ice for her friend, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, during a visit on Sunday, as very cold water makes it easier for her to swallow her tablets. She said shewas “horrified and gobsmacked” when two healthcare workers and a member of catering staff told her ice had been removed from jugs “because of budget cuts”.
Ms Lewis said staff also told her she could not bring her own ice “for health and safety reasons”.
A classic:
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I was going to say something but was waylaid by a weightless Kate Upton floating about
Having spent a lot of time in the UK over the years, I’m shocked that there is even a single ice machine in the whole nation, and even more shocked that it was in one of the places they call “hospital” with a straight face.
On a serious note, the ONLY place on earth you see these magnificent PRIVATE hospitals built by non-profit groups and built by PRIVATE citizens who choose to give back to their communities is in the USA. The Texas Medical Center in Houston has 50+ of these hospitals – some of the finest medical care anywhere – all entirely built by private groups: Baylor, Hermann, Methodist, Texas Children’s, M.D. Anderson, etc.
Only. In. America.
The ladies’ room on the floor of my courthouse has NO MIRRORS.
I have to buy my own rubber bands if I feel I need them for work. There isn’t one to be had anywhere in the building.
So I hear the friend of the cancer patient.
What, they’re trying to dehydrate her, in lieu of death panel mentality?