THE SECRET ICU

 

PLZ MY FRIENDS EVEN IF IT IS LONG EACH ONE OF YOU HAS TO READ THIS,Dear doctors PLZ WE WANT GLASS DOORS OR WINDOWS IN YOUR INVISIBLE ICUs,let us at least know what you do inside , you don't abuse and beat them right ? then why can't all ICU's have a provision of glass doors or windows from where a family member can at least watch what you are doing to our patient, recently in India or even may be in other parts of the world there is this horrifying trend of taking your patient in the ICU and not letting anybody in , in the name of hygiene and infection , my dad has gone through a lot , I have seen doctors sleeping when I suddenly entered the ICU when his pulse was going down, I have seen sweepers sweeping the bed with the same broom they use in toilets, I have seen staff holding him like a rabbit as if hanging for a procedure in which after every few minutes you are supposed to check if he is fine ,but they did not bother to halt because that lady doctor had to rush home after her shift, I have seen my dad getting swollen in one night to twice his size and I just could not recognise him in the morning, I have seen my aunt die in a knee operation because they just take away the patient behind closed doors and such idiotic attendants who get the job under several provisions and by several means in India , who can't explain you in a proper language what they are doing to your patient are there with them for the whole night.

 

 I have seen ICU's they look like hell , with all patients literally pierced with thousand tubes , most of them conscious, please I can imagine, after putting ventilator in their mouth and leaving them at the mercy of these 9 to 5 workers , not letting family be around is giving your dear ones a painful death, DON'T LEAVE THEM ALONE IN ICU's , it is very important that the person in the ICU sees his family and the family sees him , you got to have glass doors in the ICU,at least windows exclusive to every bed that can be separated by curtains if you don't want people to see everything, at least let them see what you are doing to their patients, I would like to trust you , but for days they keep saying the person is improving , he is better and one fine morning they just inform you he is no more.Which nurse forgot to change the oxygen cylinder of a semi conscious patient at night,which assistant, did not attend to a ventilator patient when he was choked due to secretion in the tube , which inexperienced intern tried his hand on him , which nurse gave a wrong injection and which patient fell from the bed and they picked him and kept him on the bed again , which intern did not risk his job by taking a call and preferred to watch the patient die as the senior was not available,can you ever know ??? and now doctors are such a breed that to earn as much as they can , they visit several hospitals and sit in their private clinics and mostly rely on assistants and when one doctor has started a treatment he leaves for a foreign country for a seminar and next day another one comes to add few more medicines which he feels are more apt or leaves quietly not to rule out what blunder the previous doctor has done,I have seen it all in the best of hospitals forget about general hospitals, ......so plz there has to be a provision of family presence with whatever precautions and transparent walls to know what you are doing.I have experienced that the infections that you get in ICU are more dangerous that what you get from visitors, ICU's are are not only a way to make money but also horrifying and fatal if your patient is left alone, plz we need to have the provision to be able to see our loved ones in the ICU.Have air tight ICU's but with glass windows it is a must, In hospitals lakhs die more due to lack of this personal concern than disease.I understand you are professionals ,you give treatment , let us take care.