My young grandchild was ambulanced to the ER from school with a badly broken and displaced arm. They needed to be transferred to another hospital for surgery. 6hrs later my grandchild is still in ER at Wonthaggi, waiting for a bed in Dandenong Hospital. They are in a lot of pain and did not eat during this time as they're fasting for the operation. This is not good enough. Pain relief is not working and my grandchild is in a substantial amount of pain.
11pm that night they said there wasn't a bed so we woke my grandchild up to give them something to eat as they then had to fast again at midnight. The next day they told us we should've just driven there ourselves as the nurse was surprised to see that my grandchild was still there. The nurse then booked an ambulance to take my grandchild to Dandenong Ed.
Why they didn't transfer my grandchild when they first arrived and seen how badly it was broken is beyond me, but to have a little child wait in pain for 24hrs is, I feel, ridiculous. It would have been quicker to drive them to an ER in Melbourne.
"Delay in transporting child in pain"
About: Dandenong Hospital Dandenong Hospital Dandenong 3175 Wonthaggi Hospital / Emergency Department Wonthaggi Hospital Emergency Department Wonthaggi 3995
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