Showing posts with label Anti-Social Behaviour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anti-Social Behaviour. Show all posts
Davy Clinton writes of his Boxing Day experience in a Belfast hospital where abusive drunks made life difficult for battling NHS staff,

I had occasion today to spend most of Boxing Day in the Emergency Department of the RVH in Belfast. If I had admiration for NHS staff before landing there it has increased ten fold tonight. Apart from the excellent medical treatment given by all the staff from porters through to consultants I saw them display patience over and beyond what should be expected of any worker. 

At 11am there were men and women in the waiting area, drunk and drugged, causing a disturbance that a pub doorman wouldn't put up with. If they wore masks at all - and some of them didn't - they wore them around their chins. One half wit who was in his 40s and should have known better marched in and up ahead of others in a queue waiting to give details to the receptionist. Did he see the queue? Did he care? I'm not sure if he even knew where he was. Marymo put him right though ... in a more polite way than I may have, and told him the queue was for everyone. In fairness to him and probably in response to the bake on her he turned and joined the queue. Drunk or drugged I do not know but he certainly didn't know if it were Christmas or Easter. 

There were several others like him though all they did was make a lot of noise and hop from chair to chair. If I have any complaints today it's not against medical or administrative staff but that management has no security there.

Even after triage and move to another part of the hospital there were enough balloons there for an 18th birthday party and all intent on creating as much mayhem as they could for staff and other patients. I saw one man in his late 70s terrified of one screaming girl demanding her "juice" that she brought in. The most pleasant young nurse - they are all young to me - calmingly repeated over and over that the doctor had given instructions that she was to be given no liquids. Jeesis, you'd have thought the nurse was cutting off her oxygen the way she got on about her "juice". Obviously, more in her "juice" than "juice".

And so it went on for hours  - one nurse telling me it would only get worse as the day went on. Are these people for real - do they have no morals, no decency? This has nothing to do with Covid.. These are the same type of people who were doing this last year and who will be doing it when Covid is but a distant memory.

I would be demented if my wife or daughter had to work in that environment. I was older than all the staff I saw and met today. Although they were all wonderful I did not see one of their faces but each and everyone of them made me feel as if I was the only one in that department. Wonderful people. Unlike the other scumbags in that department today.

Davy Clinton is a life long Glasgow Celtic supporter. 

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The day centre gates at night

Guest writer Gerard O'Halloran with a piece on the bonfire in his area where he lives in West Belfast.

The good news for Feile an Phobail which is bringing joy and jobs to west Belfast at a time of year once marked by horror and hardship' - Andersonstown News

This past week we have got caught up in the bonfire issue. This was never our fight. We entered into the issue around bonfires due to the negative impact one bonfire was having upon a disabled facility in Beechmount. It was inevitable that we were going to get caught up in this. This past week or so we were so concerned about this negative impact on our daughters' day centre that we were compelled to go to Sinn Fein and anyone else who would listen to us. To be fair they gave us a good hearing. And Ciaran Beattie, councillor for the area, explained to us that the bonfire would have been cleared a few weeks ago but for the parish priest who refused permission for workers to go on to the land owned by the Church and have it cleared.

Feile Good bonfires ...