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“They pushed her, she hit her head off the radiator. She bled out from the head and I asked them to call an ambulance and the nurse said, ‘No, put her back to bed.’ That lady died two weeks later,” The carer, who has over 20 years of experience in this field, reported the incident and statements were taken, however, as far as she is aware it was not looked into further. 

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“They pushed her, she hit her head off the radiator. She bled out from the head and I asked them to call an ambulance and the nurse said, ‘No, put her back to bed.’ That lady died two weeks later,” The carer, who has over 20 years of experience in this field, reported the incident and statements were taken, however, as far as she is aware it was not looked into further.  “I had another lady…. “I tried to get my finger inside her mouth, but when I did, I pulled her dentures from the top and her mouth was full of maggots. She passed away weeks later, she had got COVID, so she died from COVID, but nothing came of it,”  Another guest, David, shared  that his father was admitted in 2018 in December with Alzheimer’s. “On one occasion, we went into the room, there was no carer in the room. He had 24-hour care, there was no one there. He was naked in the bed and he had gone to the toilet on himself,” he told listeners.  It took over two hours to locate a nurse to change and clean up his father after this incident.  “Another occasion, I went in and actually, the carer in the room was asleep on the chair with a tablet on his lap, but my dad was hanging out of bed. He began to notice more and more bruises on his father’s body.  “I was getting no answers from no one,” David received a phone call from the same physician – this time telling him that his beloved father now only had 3 to 4 days to live.  It was revealed that David’s father took a fall and was suffering from a bleed in the brain. “From head to toe, he was bruised. From head to toe. His eye was swollen out and he had a tube in when I went to see him. “I didn’t recognise my own dad in the bed, he was that badly bruised.” When asked by David, the medical professionals claimed they did not know how this occurred. “I knew exactly what happened,” he said, maintaining that his father fell out of the bed, despite allegedly having 24-hour care.  https://limerickleader.ie/news/national-news/1820002/her-mouth-was-full-of-maggots-a-further-glimpse-into-life-at-some-of-ireland-s-nursing-homes.html

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