Nurse's negligence proves fatal

This is a post written by my sister:

(Names have been omitted. Some small details might be different/deficient but the gist is here.)

On March 15, at around 8 pm, a female patient (around 24 years old) died in Ramos General Hospital due to a nurse's sheer negligence. This nurse FORGOT to put the patient's respirator back on after feeding and suctioning her. It was not until one of the family friends noticed that the tube of the respirator wasn't attached to the patient at all that they noticed that something was gravely wrong.

This patient has been in a coma for a number of days due to cardiac arrest in the middle of a surgical operation to manage an ectopic pregnancy(that's yet another issue), that was done the past week (if i'm not mistaken) and she has been under life support since.

According to my dad's narration, a group of the patient's dad's friends gathered on the bedside to offer a prayer, when one of the friends pointed at the patient in shock, saying "Bro! hindi nakakabit!" (Bro! [the tube] isn't connected!) The father hastily reattached the tube of the respirator to her daughter and rushed outside to confront the nurse that fed his daughter earlier. When he reached the nurse station, my dad told me "ayta, selikut da ne (they hid him already)" They don't know his name (not YET) but they sure remember his face.

Everyone who was there to see that patient specifically noticed that this nurse involved was clumsy, "mali-mali", knocking things over, and he seemed lost and clueless of what he was doing.

The parents and the whole religious community that they belong to plan to take action as soon as possible, to set things right, to seek justice. Ignorance is not an excuse, and there is definitely NO EXCUSE to the error committed, especially if it involves life and death, and if the mistake done was way too simple, only someone stupid can pull it off.

Let there be a lesson learned from this tragedy. A lot of us belong to the health care sector and there is no room for error. We all know this, but it takes a lot of effort to practice.

God bless that guy who cut an innocent girl's life shorter than it already is (intentionally or otherwise, it doesn't matter now, she's dead), who caused a whole new level of pain and anguish to the already suffering family.