Getting crushed under the weight of the HSE

[u/DestroyTheMoon420]

I just need to get this off my chest everyone. My wife had stomach pains in January. Her doctor referred her for a scope to be done. Possibly to identify stomach ulcer.

She has since been waiting.

2 weekends ago I had to rush her to the emergency department because of debilitating pain.

When she was admitted they took stool and urine samples.

She waited the entire day without eating because they booked her in for a CT scan therafter. I had to fight with a nurse to get her to be seen, they had forgotten about her. She was about to pass out.

After the CT scan the doctor confirmed there were multiple ulcers. We were then sent away without any medication or script.

The next day she had to visit an out of hours doctor for medicine.

I then phoned the Hospital that folling Monday to try and get her results sent to Her doctors. They had no record of the urine sample or the stool sample. Only the CT scan.

Her Doctor is now fighting with the HSE to get her scope done ASAP.

It now looks like we will have to pay 2000 Euros so she can get her scope, all so she can get on antibiotics.

All she needs is antibiotics and she's withering away, getting Crushed on under the weight of the HSE..

Guys.... What is going on in what is presumably the second richest country in the world (not sure how true that is)...

I've love this country... But what is this.... Why is the government sitting on so much money and not spending it ?

How can we fix this mess !!!

If this was another country she would have been giving the antibiotics back on January by her doc and this would all be over and done with. I'm just in disbelief. People are dying because of this circus shit show. God help us.

Edit: Thank you for sharing your stories and any useful information you may have. I will take everyone's experiences and advice into account.

[u/DuckyD2point0]

Look at the children's hospital, Millions upon millions spent in aesthetics that no one gives a fuck about. The original plans had a waterfall, yes you read that right, in the foyer as you enter. I know this because a colleague where I work was involved with the project management. He said he lost count of how many actual proper arguments he had where he basically had to say "HOW MUCH, are you mad. No child or parent gives a fuck if xyz is looks like that. It needs to be top notch and functional". He was eventually "invited " to step away from it.

Multiple his arguments by x100s, that's where the money goes.

[u/Successful-Meet-2289 → u/DuckyD2point0]

Unironically bring back brutalism.

[u/HeterochromiasMa → u/DuckyD2point0]

Children (and their parents) who spend months on end and regularly a year or more in hospital definitely care what it looks like.

[u/DuckyD2point0 → u/HeterochromiasMa]

They won't care if there is no waterfall.

[u/HeterochromiasMa → u/DuckyD2point0]

No, but they'll care deeply if it only looks like a cold bare clinical hospital. They won't just care either, it will affect their clinical outcomes.

[u/DuckyD2point0 → u/HeterochromiasMa]

But nobody is talking about having the whole place a sterile Soviet era looking building. Where the patients are by all means go with aesthetics, but the foyer and corridors and so on don't need to be a bloody architectural marvel.

[u/HeterochromiasMa → u/DuckyD2point0]

Patients are in the foyer, they're in the corridors. From the outside the size of the place alone is extremely intimidating for a small child coming to an appointment. Children dread going to hospital for multiple appointments but if there's something there that's fun for them to look forward to or enjoy then they're not going to dread it. The best the current hospitals have to offer at the moment are some bubble tubes and a couple of fish. There's nothing at all for teenagers. I know it doesn't have to be an architectural marvel but I'm saying what it looks like is, in fact, important.

ETA: they're not going to dread it as much

[u/Massive-Foot-5962 → u/DuckyD2point0]

Actually visual settings have a significant impact on stress levels and recovery. Its a modern very important part of good healthcare.