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Boy sleeps on UK hospital floor due to lack of beds
A four-year-old boy with suspected pneumonia was forced to sleep on a hospital treatment room floor because of a lack of beds in the United Kingdom.
Jack was photographed lying on a pile of coats and with an oxygen mask at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) on December 3, which has since gone viral. His mother, Sarah, told The Daily Mirror seeing the NHS crisis for herself meant she would vote Labour.
The hospital apologised and said it had had its busiest week since 2016. Dr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Our hospitals are extremely busy at the moment and we are very sorry that Jack’s family had a long wait in our Emergency Department.”
She added: “We are extremely sorry that there were only chairs available in the treatment room, and no bed. This falls below our usual high standards, and for this, we would like to sincerely apologise to Jack and his family.”
Jack was taken to his GP last Tuesday, with vomiting, diarrhoea, coughing and a fever. He had been ill for six days with what the GP had thought was a virus, but as he had not improved he was taken by ambulance to the accident and emergency unit of LGI.
His mum told The Mirror: “He kept asking to lay down. He was without a bed for four-and-a-half hours.
“He needed to go to sleep and he needed to lay down. He started falling asleep and he ended up going to sleep on a pile of coats.
“There was no bed for him in A&E and there was no bed for him on the ward, so he just had to sleep on the floor.”
After his wait in the treatment room, Jack was eventually moved to a ward where he waited for five hours on a trolley before a bed was found.
He was later diagnosed with flu and tonsillitis, and discharged home the next day.
His mum praised medical staff but said: “I am frustrated about the system and the lack of beds, which I am presuming is due to a lack of funding to the NHS to deliver the services that are required.”
The prime minister had faced calls to apologise to the family from shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth.
He said: “Boris Johnson should personally apologise to Jack and his family. A decade of Tory cuts has brought us to this crisis in our NHS.
“If the Tories win on Thursday, patients including children will suffer five more years of this. We need a Labour government to save our NHS.”
Asked about the incident during an interview on LBC, Mr Johnson said: “Of course I sympathise very much and I apologise to everybody who has a bad experience.
“By and large I think the NHS does an amazing job and I think that they deserve all praise for the service they provide – but they do need investment and that’s why we’re doing it now.”
Liberal Democrat Luciana Berger said: “This young boy’s experience is absolutely shameful and deeply upsetting. It is simply unacceptable that hospitals are under so much pressure that they don’t have enough beds – especially for small children.”
Mr Johnson was later asked about the photograph in an interview with ITV News but refused to look at it.
Instead, he took the phone from Mr Pike and put it in his pocket.
In a clip of the interview posted on Twitter, Mr Pike said to Mr Johnson: “You refuse to look at the photo. You’ve taken my phone and put it in your pocket Prime Minister.”
Mr Johnson then took the phone out of his pocket, looked at the photo on the screen, and said: “It’s a terrible, terrible photo. And I apologise obviously to the families and all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS.”
Guardian
A mobile court in Oshodi has sentenced a man simply identified as Paul to nine months imprisonment for not using a pedestrian bridge and assaulting personnel of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps.
According to the State Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, who revealed this information through a post on his X handle on Thursday.
Wahab wrote, “Paul was apprehended on April 16 for not utilizing the pedestrian bridge at Agbado Oke Odo, during which he assaulted and injured the enforcement personnel of LAGESCOfficial (KAI).
The mobile court in Oshodi delivered a nine-month jail sentence on him.”
The Ministry recently cautioned residents about avoiding pedestrian bridges, labeling the act of pedestrians crossing major highways in the state as illegal.
According to PUNCH’s report on Tuesday, the state government apprehended and charged 76 individuals for ignoring pedestrian bridges in the Ojota, Ladipo, and Oshodi regions.
In a March report, it was mentioned that a 22-year-old woman named Fasia Ajoke was sentenced to seven months and three weeks in prison for assaulting a female LAGESC officer while on duty.
Ajoke was also found guilty of resisting arrest and refusing to use the pedestrian bridge.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has vowed to arrest the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, and bring him before the Federal High Court Abuja for arraignment to answer to the charges preferred against him.
This came on the heels of Bello’s counsel, Abdulwahab Muhammed, SAN, refusing to be served in the place of his client who is on the run from the EFCC.
The anti-graft agency, while addressing a Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday through its team of lawyers led by Kemi Pinehero, SAN, stressed that operatives would execute the arrest warrant against the former governor even if it has to be done by the use of force.
He said, “We have to arraign him in court even if we have to use the military. Immunity is only attached to a person and not the building.
“The law allows to break down walls to arrest an evading defendant. Section 284 says all persons are to obey the service of charge.”
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Heritage Bank’s Head Office has been shut down over the sack of over 1,000 workers.
JomogNews Nigeria reports that the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE), has shut down Heritage Bank’s head office in Lagos following the sack of over 1000 personnel by the management of lender led by Mr. Akinola George-Taylor without following due process.
The union said it had resolved to continue with the picketing until the management of the bank decides to do the needful by ensuring the sacked workers get their legitimate severance package.
The aggrieved ex-staff of the bank has locked the gate and prevented anyone from going in or out of the bank’s head office located at 143 Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Recall that in October 2023, less than one year after assuming office as Heritage Bank’s chief executive officer, Mr. Akinola George-Taylor forcefully booted out over 70 senior staff members of the bank, while a number of others were asked to resign plunging the bank in further crisis. More worrisome was the fact that the affected staff were disengaged without paying them their accrued entitlements and allowances.
JomogNews Nigeria gathered that there has also been an internal crisis allegedly instigated by the bank chief in an attempt to rid the bank of those suspected to be loyalists of some board members and employ his own people. The move, sources disclosed, was unconnected with the new bank chief’s plan to oust some board members who are said to be at loggerheads with him, from the bank. The bank’s chief was said to be enjoying the support of a top shareholder of the bank whom sources say is allegedly determined to solely take over the bank and get rid of the owners.
When contacted by our reporter, Ozenna Utulu, the head of Corporate Communications of Heritage Bank promised to get back to our reporter but never did as at the time of filing this report.
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