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PREAMBLE: This family tragedy you are about to read contains 100% accurate facts related to the family emergency I talked earlier about. This tragedy DID NOT take place in East Timor and NO, it DID NOT take place in
THE ORDEAL
Day 1: On the afternoon of Sunday the 19th of August, 2007
My father left the house on some usual errands. He never came back that day and, surprisingly, his mobile was switched off. Although it’s unlike my dad to leave the house and not say where he’s going and turn off his mobile, my family thought he was sleeping over at one of his friend’s house and simply ran out of battery, so they didn’t really get worried and thought he’d call the next morning to inform the family where he was.
Day 2:
There’s still no sign of him and his mobile is still turned off. Again, although it’s unlike him, but we reassured ourselves that he’s probably at one of his friends’ spending a jolly good time.
Day 3:
There’s no sign of my dad whatsoever. We started calling all members of the family, all his friends and acquaintances, but no one knew where he was. We try to be positive and pray to God that he’ll show up the next day. Being in Dubai, I was unable to add any value, except give my family more reasons to worry by calling them every 10 minutes. We started getting worried.
Day 4:
Still, no sign of dad. We panic! My family informs the police. The police contacted all hospitals and ran a circulated search on his license plate number. The feeling of helplessness was killing me, but we kept lying to ourselves that he’s doing fine.
Five or six members of the family took turns in calling all Amman hospitals including Prince Hamza Hospital, which they called THREE TIMES. All hospitals assured us that no one with my father’s name was admitted recently.
Day 5:
Another day passes by with no progress. Dad’s mobile is still turned off. We went as far as to think that he got married to another woman and was spending his sweet honey moon in another country, because that’s what a desperate person would think to reassure himself that someone dear to him is doing fine.
Day 6:
Yet another day with empty hands. Our contacts at the border controls and at the airport assured us that my father did not leave the country. At this point, there was little room left for positive thinking. We started fearing the worst.
Day 7:
The fear of the worst intensified. Bad thoughts prevailed and we began to lose hope.
Day 8:
It’s been more than a week since dad left now. There’s no sign of him or his car and his mobile is still turned off! My cousin at the Air Force went beyond his duty and managed to convince his senior to fly a chopper and look for dad’s car in the forests and woods of Amman, but nothing happened. We lost all hope of finding him. I couldn’t eat, drink, sleep or work.
Day 9:
The police found dad’s car! It was found next to the Arab College [الكلية العربية], located in the Gardens Street, parked in a strange way, as if the driver left it in a hurry. It was hit from the left side and there were groceries in the back seat.
The doorman of the closest building to where the car was parked confirmed that an old man came out of the car and looked very sick and some college students took him to a hospital. He did not know which hospital he was transferred to. The Criminal Investigation guys arrived and took fingerprints and the doorman’s statement.
We contact all hospitals again, including Prince Hamza Hospital, as it is the closest public hospital to where dad’s car was found (people in Jordan tend to transfer sick strangers to public hospitals so they wouldn’t have to worry about payments). The operator at Prince Hamza Hospital guaranteed us that no one with my father’s name was admitted into the hospital.
Despite the operator’s assurance, my witty uncle went to that hospital at 10:30 pm of that day. He asked the receptionist if my father was admitted there and the receptionist, who’s also the operator, snapped at my uncle and his exact words were: (يا عمي دوشتونا بهالزملة! ما في ورانا غيركو؟ … يا أخي روحوا دوّروا عليه بمحل ثاني!). English translation: [We’ve had enough of you guys asking about this man. Do you think we have nothing better to do than answer your inquiries? Go look elsewhere!“
My uncle demanded to see the register to which the receptionist refused, but my uncle insisted. To get rid of my persistent uncle, the receptionist hands him the register, my uncle flips a page or two back and, believe it or not, THERE IT WAS: my father’s name, written in a very clear and visible handwriting in the patient’s manifest/register, admitted on Sunday the 19th of August, the same day he left the house.
Yes my friends, you are not imagining things. He was admitted to the hospital which my family called FOUR different times and every single time they said NO, there’s no such patient!
I arrived to
THE HORRIFIC FACTS
Dad was driving his car when he became very ill and hit his car where it was found. He got out of his car feeling very dizzy and fell down. Some unknown students took him
Because the hospital is really bad and I can’t begin to explain how horrible it is, my dad ended up with a) a brain seizure, b) severe pneumonia, c) kidney malfunction and d) blood infection. All which he picked up and was caused by his stay at the Prince Hamza Butchery (that’s what we’re calling it now). The reason his mobile was turned off is because it was stolen, either by the people who transferred him, or most probably at the hospital.
Now let me tell you a little of how my dad was treated in that hospital:
- For 9 days, 9 miserable days: he was left without any clothes on, not even a patient’s robe, which most probably caused the acute pneumonia.
- For 9 days, 9 miserable days: he was left with no food or water, which caused bacteria to form inside his mouth.
- For 9 days, 9 miserable days: none of the hospital’s staff bothered him/herself to inform his family, or the police for that matter, although he had his wallet next to him, and of course all his money was stolen, but he had all his ID’s and friend’s business cards in it. It even had MY business card! Can you imagine how he felt waking up to find no one beside him for 9 days?
- For 9 days, 9 miserable days: he was not given his medication, instead, the nurse would leave his pills on the table next to him, but he couldn’t move God damnit! If it wasn’t for the kind-hearted patient next to him who took it upon himself to give dad his medication and feed him whenever he can, God knows what could’ve happened.
- For 9 days, 9 miserable days: he was left to rot, literally. They did not bathe or clean him even once, and you can never imagine the hygienic condition he was in.
- For 9 days, 9 miserable days: they did not bother to change his position, which caused really severe bed sores on his buttocks.
We transferred him to a decent hospital the very next day, because we had to wait for the doctor’s release and an ambulance, which they refused to let us use or hire.
What’s even stranger than all that is when we went to the hospital the next day to transfer him, the doctors said he’s doing fine now and all he had was high blood pressure and minor convulsions, so you can take him home now. But after transferring him, the doctors told us he wouldn’t have made it if we took him home, simply because you can’t treat a brain seizure, acute pneumonia, a blood disease and a kidney malfunction at home!
The carelessness and the indifference we saw in the hospital are seriously fatal and without a doubt, a couple of more days at that hospital could’ve been the end of my father.
The Prince Hamza Hospital was only inaugurated last year by King Abdullah II and has cost the Jordanian government (tax payers, i.e, the Jordanian people) more than 67.6 million Jordan Dinars (close to 100 million $!).
The hospital is truly enormous and it looks wonderful from the outside but once you go inside, you’d feel like you’ve entered a ghost town to say the least. Large halls are empty and dirty and I assure you that you can’t find more than a couple of nurses in any of the large wards. The entire hospital is a smoking zone and the sight of patients smoking in their rooms is more than normal. All procedures there are done on papers. Not one computer can be found in the entire hospital and the one and only computer lies in front of the accountant.
POST-DRAMA ACTION
We are thinking of suing them, although people are advising us not to, because it’ll be to no avail and would only be a waste of time, effort and money, simply because we’ll be suing the government (Prince Hamza Hospital) to the government (the courts), but nevertheless, we will carry on with that.
We also called the local Watan FM radio station (100.3 FM) and one of sharp-tongued uncles complained live about the hospital’s carelessness which nearly got an old man killed, in addition to the physical, psychological and mental state my dad was in when we found him, and not mentioning the torment me and family went through during the past two weeks. The radio station then called the hospital’s deputy general manager, Abdel Hafith Kharabsheh, who admitted the hospital is short-staffed and that the staff there are doing their utmost best, which absolutely contradicts to what the Jordanian Minister of Health, Sa’eed Darwazeh, said during the hospital’s inaugural press conference on the 25th of June 2006 (Kindly refer to paragraph 5 of the cached article. The original doesn’t exist for some reason) where he denied that The Prince Hamza Hospital is undermanned and confirmed that the hospital has 159 doctors and 465 nurses, in addition to other 99 medical workers.
But what Mr. Kharabsheh knows very well is that the problem does not lie in the fact that he’s short-staffed, but in the fact that the current staff are absolutely incompetent. All what they had to do is call the man’s family or the police.
I called a close friend of mine at the Jordan Times and told her the tragedy, but, unfortunately, she thinks such tragic stories are unlikely to be carried in the paper.
AND FINALLY …
Although my heart bleeds for what happened to my dear father and to see him this weak and vulnerable, but at least his health condition is stable at the moment and can now recognize us and mumble a few unintelligible words every now and then.
This post will probably be the only platform for me to rant in case the lawsuit fails but I do hope that my voice will be heard somewhere, not just because such incidents should not go unpunished, especially that it happened to my father, but because some action, even if it was too little, can save other people’s lives, it can help eradicate the carelessness and apathy the Jordanian health system suffers from and more importantly … restore some of the lost value of the human life.
UPDATE - (September 6th, 2007)
Upon republishing the story in Addustour Daily, (Batir, I owe you my life), senior officials at the Ministry of Health contacted me yesterday and confirmed that the newly appointed Minister of Health, Dr. Salah Al Mawajdeh, sends his regards and is personally very concerned about this issue and has given direct orders to start an investigation lead by the Head of Internal Auditing Department at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Azmi Al Hadidi, who called me and visited my dad at the hospital yesterday (September 5th, 2007) and assured us that the investigation will prosecute those who have caused this ordeal.
Dr. Azmi Al Hadidi seemed to be more disturbed by this post and the online and printed media noise it has stirred (thanks for your supportive comments and all you wonderful people who republished the post), and even questioned my patriotism, and little does he know of my patriotism, (all with the presence of Qwaider, who came to visit at a perfect timing, not) nevertheless, Dr. Azmi promised that he won’t cut any slack and will do his best to try and identify those who have committed those grave mistakes on a medical and a managerial level.
We are hopeful that the investigation will lead to enhancing the reputation of The Prince Hamza Hospital and solving the roots of the problem, instead of just dumping it all on a poor scapegoat who barely makes 150 JD’s a month. I will keep you posted with the progress of the investigation.
My father is doing much better now and is slowly recovering, thanks to the professional medical care he is receiving at the Jordanian University Hospital where we transferred him afterwards and where doctors know exactly what they’re doing and nurses are more than happy to take that extra mile to insure the improvement of their patients’ health.
I also apologize for editing some comments some of you left here, but kindly take into consideration that I am not trying to cause an uproar here and am trying to get my voice heard, and it did, thanks to all of you. Therefore I would appreciate it if no profanities were used, as it would affect the progress of the ongoing investigation, in addition to the fact that this post has been forwarded by many people to HM King Abdullah II, HM Queen Rania and HH Prince Hamzah. So please, please, please, keep it clean.
I, unfortunately, had to travel back to Dubai after extending my unpaid leave, because life is tough and now it’s getting tougher, and now we’re in a situation where money is of utmost importance. So you who claim that you’re my friend, although I don’t have to explain myself and my situation to you, but do you think I’d rather leave my dear father in such a circumstance if I didn’t have to? However, my older brother is there and so is the rest of my family who are all attending to my dad.
Thank you all for your deepest concern and for those who were even ready to donate money to start a fund for the lawsuit fees.
oh my god Husain, this is horrible, i’m really sorry you and your family had to go through this, it is just inhuman, I really don’t know what to say, Allah yeshfee.. o yenta2em menhom wlad hal 7aram.. jad enno eshi besem el badan.. i’m really sorry.
I was actually skipping paragraphs to make sure your dad is ok..7amdillah 3a salamto, now this is truely outragous, in a country proud of the quality of its health service, now..a couple of suggestions, get someone like bater to write something about it in arabic since he’s a professional and his colemn in the newspaper is read, I’ll email you in a while with some other ideas.
7amdillah 3a salamto.
Salamet your dad, i will tell dr abdelhadi brizzat the head of the hospital about this.
mesh 3aref sho beddi agool ya 7sein 3′er enno alla yentagem menhom o yshell edehom o ejerhom hommeh welli 7a6hom..I e-mailed all the online news papers in jordan. And for all of you bloggers please do the same..
Al hamdulillah 3ala ssalamet your dad, i wish him speedy recover!!
First of all, this incompetent receptionist should be fired on the spot!!!
please contact the local TV stations the local newspapers, you must know somebody who knows somebody that can help you do that… try to publish your story and speak out about it….more people should read it and hear about it…actions should be taken by the lame government to fix things up, at least not to let people die this cruel way, or treated inhumanly…it sounds like we live in a heartless world!!
Best wishes to your dad and your family…it could have been worse, alhamdulillah for everything.
7amdillah 3a salamit ur dad. I’m just glad you found him and that he’s alive. I was really worried when i started reading. You scared me! Inshallah Allah yishfeeh o y3afeeh!
o wow husain…im shocked at this! i will pray for your dad..inshallah he will recover..in addition i pray that every single cold hearted sick person working at that hospital gets treated a million times worse than they treated any patient…i do not believe things like this still happen…i hope you guys win the lawsuit and get their stupid asses kicked…*hugs*
حمد لله على سلامت الوالد و ان شاء الله بتنذكر و عمرها ما بتنعاد
و عنجد لازمهم شكوى هي مو أول مرة بطلع حكي عليهم ولا عيب
من حأكم
الله يسر لك
I really dont know how to express the deep anger inside of me …. Im just too furious and mad at all what heard
I know what a dad means I have lost a dear dad who was my best friend now I wish I can see him for one hour to bend on his feet and kiss his toes wa7ad wa7ad…
il mohim that ur daddy is alive and being treated and Im sure he can feel that love n support that u all are giving him and that will for sure make him stronger.
Hasoun NEVER LOSE FAITH IN ALLAH … as for that Hospital.. dont let me get going on them cos u know me pretty well MINON LA ALLAH.
hope he gets well real soon yarab.. Allah ykoon bi3awnkon
and SUEEEEEEEEE THE DAMN HOSPIAL
This is a very disturbing read .7amdilla 3ala salameto your father, i hope him all the good health inshalla. Mohannad said it right, the media at large should be contacted, hopefully they will bother and listen.
Allah y2awmo bel salameh ya rab… walahi ana mn youm ma 3refet o ana ad3eelo… allah la ysame7hom 3ala hal 3amleh
allah y2awemelkom yah bel salameh ya rab o ydeemp foo2 raskom dayman
I sit here staring at the screen unable to think of what to say from the shock! I feel anger and sadness and I cannot belive how this happened.
How and why would these people do what they did? And in Amman? in the Amman we love??
Inshallah ya rab ya 7sain your dad gets better and this whole thing is behind you.
I never wish ill upon people but I wish that those people who DID NOT take care of your dad to suffer and pay for what they did.
I am so sorry your Dad and family had to go through all this, allah yishfeeh and allah ykoon ma3akom
Husain,, Ra3abtni!!!! 7amdillah, 7amdillah 7amdillah a million times that this was it and you found him and he is in good health now and inshallah he’ll recover soon,
this is terrible, absolutely you have all the right to sue them,,
what kind of a system that takes 9 days to find a person in a country of 6 million people or hospitals that doesn’t file or check who are its patients, ya akhi suppose ana ma 3indi wlad, and that happened to me,, what could have happened to me? and who’s responsibility would that be!!!!!!!!!! really who’s mistake is this. didn’t they endanger a human’s life with all of this, didn’t that consume all the amount of anxiety you’ll ever feel!!!
if anything positive you’ll ever want to establish for this f**ked up public health system is some unified procedure for hospital management and some good inspection system that is too harsh on drs and nurses that states a standard for all procedures, in a manner that they go by it or they’ll get fired. its people’s lives here.. this is so serious and i believe everyone should protest against it!!
thinking about it,, see how corrupt and self centered everyone is, from the doorman who saw the car for days parked to the college student who didnt show up again to the nurse who is heartless and doesn’t use her head to the policemen who was so slow,, if all these people put some small effort,, mish talbeen ykoono super heroes, bas i3mal il 3aleik o khalli 3indak dameer!! imagine how small it would have been if anyone of those just made a call..
kul il nas bas bto23od titfarraj o bit2oul ma khasni..
its not the hospital,, its everything and everyone… see for any of those,, i would sue all of them.. because all of them are guilty.
and all what you hear, read and see,, i love you Amman. meet the patriots!! its the people that need fixing. i am very mad at the moment.
Oh My GOD!!! Im shocked and speechless!!
7amdilla 3a salamto, the most important thing now is that he’s ok.
What I’d advice you to do is to inform this incident to the Medical Association, my dad is a member for so many years, and they have a party who’s responsible of patient’s inquiries and doctors’ mistakes. Im not 100% sure if hospitals are included in their equation, but believe me if they are then they would do something about it. I can give you my dad’s name and mobile number. And Im sure he’ll help you as much as he can.
This is unbelievable and INHUMAN!
How could such thing happen!!!
Sue that hospital, I think burning it down is better!
This is a one sided story we need to hear the other side before we can pitch a sound judgement.
“john doe said: This is a one sided story we need to hear the other side before we can pitch a sound judgement.”
Really? You really think you need another side of this story because hearing what the receptionist or incompetent hospital staff has to say might change your mind about the fact that an old man was left to rot in his bed for 9 days and nights alone without anyone in that place thinking to figure out who the hell he is and calling his family? Are you from the hospital’s PR unit?
what a horrific story. all the best wishes to your father and the family.
Elhamdelah 3alasalamet elwaled.
This is real sad.
In the states the best thing is to contact your senator, can’t you do the same in Jordan?
Who is the minister of health in Jordan? they should be liable for this as well. I would ask for explanation,restitution,and what new procedures are they going to do to prevent this in the future.
I would also contact the royal palace, this exact post by email & post mail.
Then if none of those worked, I would contact the media.
That live radio show, newspapers, TV.
But most of all I hope he gets well soon and best restitution is leaving it to God.
Peace
WOW! Hamdella 3al salamto. w allah la ywafeghom! I want my taxes back and now! screw that! if you don’t get a good reply from the minister, I’ll make sure this gets published in magazines
Who-Sane, i am SO sorry for this unbelievable string of incompetency!It is truly a miracle your dad survived.
Wasn’t anyone remembering that this man was someone’s father, husband, Seedo, and people would be wild with worry?
I disagree with your JT friend, this is a story that will interest many and it needs to be told far and wide to force some change.
This way I hate Jordan.. what happened with your Dad -may God help him- happens daily every where in Jordan … what can I say more .. I’m speechless… again bets wishes for your dad.
Sorry about all this, dude. My wife stepped foot in the Prince Hamzeh Hospital one time and said she would never return. Like you said, from the outside it looks really nice, but the inside is dispicable.
Hope your father fully recovers.
1st…7amddellah 3ala salamet el waled…then, yes u hv to do ur best to sue them, ino…what they were thinking…the problem is we ignored many of thier mistakes..so they went on and on..suing them may ope the way..and a very big change could be made by this step…i suggest a pettition..so a change in the law could be made..and believe me, many ppl will sign it..
again 7amdella 3ala salamet el waled
OMG! its disturbing and shocking reading this and realizing its a true story i cant even begin to imagine how much worse it was living it!
i have always thought inno lissa fi kheir bil dinya and il nas la ba3d and all that crap, and it might still be applicable.. but elsewhere! im so sorry u and urs had to go thru all that due to the not very humane attitude ppl are acquiring.. allah y2awmo bil salameh w yrayye7 balkum nshala.
Bless!
OMG !! I just read this, I feel my blood boiling in my veins! I don’t know how your uncle stopped himself from killing the operator ?!
Hamdila 3la salamet elwaled, you should try and make as much noise as you can, call Mohammad al wakeel, call all the radio shows that feature complains. in the midst of all this don’t forget that you have been blessed to find him alive and Inshala he will recover fully soon.
الف حمد الله على سلامة الوالد الحمد لله انه بخير و الله يعينكم على تياسة هالشعب
لو حدا شاف القصة فيلم بقول تاليف بتاليف و مستحيل هيك اشي يحصل بالواقع
مش عم بتخيل الرعب الي مريتو فية
مش عم بتخيل انه نحنا لسة حياة الانسان عنا ما الها اي اهمية
مش عم بصدق مستشفى يترك مريض بدون ادويته و بدون اكل و بدون ما يخبر اهله
لازم يا حسين تاخدوا اجراءات
لازم يخافو عشان ما تتكرر
الله يهون عليكم و عليه و يقوم بالسلامة التامة يا رب
قلوبنا و صلواتنا معكم
Incredible!! literally, this is outrageous..you should go all the way sue them and try and publish your story , in any paper that will accept it..i cant see why they wouldn’t..call Mhamad el Wakeel, no matter what people think of him, but this guy sure can make a fuss..and most importantly hamdillla 3ala salmto your dad..wish him a good recovery, soon..horrific!!
7amdillah 3assalameh who-sane, inshallah bukra birja3 zay li7san.
as for the whole ordeal… as much as i think it’s futile to sue, i think you should. and maybe this will actually effect the main stream media by making it on the news somewhere.
as for health services in jordan, there’s nothing worse than our lovely government owned facilities. and privately owned hospitals are the most abusive, opportunist and ill hearted organizations.
allah bi3een…
i remember once there was a family that couldn’t get their beloved mother’s dead body out of the morgue of a private hospital “prefer not to say which cause it’s kinda old and i don’t want to point any fingers unless i’m 100% sure which one it was”cause they were 150 JD’s short of the bill.
bottom line, pray that you don’t get really sick in jordan.
7AMDELLAH 3ALA SALAMTO..I encourage you to sew them coz the reason they are careless is because they know no one gonna do anything to them.
By the way, I am sure they are all competent, but simply they are inhuman. The things they had to do can be done by a 3rd year medicine student.
OMG!! i’m so shocked and so out of words!!
how careless and irresponsible! Allah la ya3tyoun 3afyeh!!
but el 7amdellah 3ala salamto 1000 marra..i hope he recovers soon!
i can’t get over the shock and anger…i swear my blood is boiling!
Il7amdella 3a salamto!
one of the things u can do “a shot” is go to da2eret mokafa7et el fassad, it would help if u know someone who knows someone (thats pretty easy in amman these days!) they are seperate department from the government and it may help back you up in a suit (they may dont want to go to that extreme but they do things in the dark)
although i urge u to be the first who actually file a law suit against the government, that would encourage others
A whole mess… from security guys to ER to the administration, not a single person had done his job… I would dare to blame everyone that ever sat beside this man, even the kind patient next to him who saw the wallet and didn’t mind to check what the hell is happening, 9 days and not a single visitor!!! It’s obvious something is wrong!?!?
Everyone involved is so full… Such low and mean people should suffer extreme punishment… At these times I really love beheading… outrageous!!
Blogging changed policies and scared politicians in certain countries.
Kuwaiti Bloggers achieved MAKE IT 5 campaign.
Jordanian Bloggers not that powerful.
So, I suggest All of you Bloggers who at least commented on this story to republish it so it will get the attention it deserves, and the more the better.
I’m gonna go ahead and republish it and who likes to follow feel free to do so.
Peace
7amdellah 3ala salamet el waled I wish him a speady recovery..
well I dont know what to say but this is not the first time to happen in jordan I have seen it many times to people I know and people I dont..but this time its little bit went too far to reflect somethin that are spreading all over the place every where in arab world indivuals are loosing even their humanity and respect to their own species ..unfortunatilly we lost what seperates us from wild west culture we lost our ethics and the irony is that they now have more ethics and mercy than us in their countries for us!!!
my advise sue them blog it all over the universe campaign it even send intillegence officers with even faked reports that could get them into jail for faked stories they deserve to be hurt because the amount of hurt abuse is in no way could be looked at well they didnt mean that no boss they intentionally ment to harm you and your father and your family so you should intentionally take your revenge with a smart way that would really put them in a place that no one can visit them no one can know a shit about them and their families are too damm worried about them as the same as they did to ur father…
simply speaking unhuman people needs unhumanitarian measures to understand that yeah if u hurt people really they can hurt u in a very bad way that no one can imagine then this intentional abuse would stop for all the normal humans leaving in jordan.
boss dont tell me bloggin would solve it no no no bloggin is for intelectualls who cant change a real bad things (sorry bloggers no offence ment) if u want to change things u have to change them physically in a language that these people understand nothing less than that..
peace be upon all who suffers..
Now it is clear why so many hospital staff get beaten up. Your father is lucky to survive this ordeal.
I would add that the people who took your father to the hospital probably were afraid to stick around because our backward laws might implicate them in his accident.
Finally, thank God that things worked out. I hope you go through with the law suit. Salamat.
7amdella 3ala salameto … inshalla allah beshfeeh o be3afeeh …
i will call my friends back in amman and see what they can do … and i will try the best to be as much help as i can … i will send this to Kamel Nseirat and Yousef Ghieshan …
peace and may Allah be with us on this …
Alf Salameh, this is really outrageous!
Lousy and careless people!
Your dad had his ID card on him, right?So there is no way the asshole missed his name because it was written differently or something
And YES sue them! You are not suing the government, you are actually making a difference and nothing scary about suing the goverment
The shawerma shop owners are actually suing the minister of health, the kharabsheh dude
7seen do u think you can write an article in arabic too ?? it would make things alot easier to spread the word
This is absolutely Horrible! I’m really glad that your father is Doing better and thank god you managed to find him before it was too late (la sama7allah). alf 7amdillah 3ala salamto.
You should definitely sue the hospital! You should take this thing as far and as high up as it can get. This should not pass by lightly. people should be accounted and this shameful and irresponsible hospital should be investigated and somebody should pay for this!
so sad! Sorry that this tragedy happened to your family. IT did also happen to many many others. Pleeeeease sue them, please do so. I’ll be honest with you, it’s unlikely that you will win (you might though), but if people started sueing hospitals it would be difficult to turn them all away and someone with some consicence will wake up and try to change things.
As I said before the problem is not mainly the lack of money, it’s the lack of ethics and morals. It’s a shame that this happens in our society , the society that’s known for “respecting the elderly”.
Whaaaaaattt??????
Awal eshe salamtoo 3amoo! o ya rab y2ooom bel salameh!
Man,, if i were you .. you go an beat the hell of of those guys..! they are a disgrace!!!!!!!
First of all,Iam glad your father is in a stable condition.Second,this is not the first time and last time that people such as your father is treated miserably by hospitals,this routine occurrences in Jordanian hospitals,just go the Basheer Hospital in Amman and see how pathetic they treat their patients.
Third, I blame this pathetic incompetent government for what is happening to people.
Fourth,If I were you ,I would sue for physical and mental damages .its the only way out,fight back even if you think you are going to lose against this pathetic government…
ya Allah!! Hamdillah 3ala salamto! Hope he gets better soon and inshallah tinzikir ma tin3ad…
hospitals’ and doctors’ mistakes happen alot in Jordan… One of my cousins diesd cuz of a very stupid mistake done by a doctor…he had to suffer for over 10 years before his death!
Allah la yiwaffi2hom…heartless people!!
The minister of health should be fired.
First the shawerma scandal then this new hospital that is supposed to be state of the art.
My uncle who is a civil Engineer who works at the company that was responsible for building it. There were over 40 engineers and architects involved and working on it. He said it is THE BEST hospital , or let me say building because I don’t think it qualifies as a hospital anymore, in the middle east where no expenses were spared in building it.
So you build the greatest hospital and make people pay tax for what??? for a butcher shop!!!! SHAME on this government!
This hospital is the poster child of corruption.
Despite my relief that you have found your father, i am horrified at the measures you have taken to get to him, and the unheard of condition you have found him in.
I strongly urge you to not “let this go”, even if it is hard to get your word out there. Your father is lucky to have a family who cares about him so much and were ardent on finding him. I’m sure there are hundreds of people admitted to public hospitals on a daily basis who are not treated any better and yet don’t have the means to do anything about it. The attitudes towards public health need to change, even if it means changing the last incompetent health care provider there is! It is about time for a change. Jordan is much better than this. Good luck!
Oh Hussain, this is really disturbing! elmuhim, 7amdella 3ala salamit elwalid, but you really should take action against that hospital. The most shocking part is them not contacting your family…I can’t believe it!
It is realy a strange and very sad story and i hope your dad become better soon .
Dear…. your story should appear in media (T.V, Radio,news papers) all the people should read this story in order to be careful from this hospital and all the goverment hospitals.
While reading your story the problem at that hospial was not the careless man how was giveing the wrong information without bothering him self to do a job the police and you asked from him,but also with nurses and doctors and directors,they have been given a big reponsebilty but with no moral and mercy feelings.
Inshalla you can do something but in our country if there is (WASTA OR GARABA) for someone it will be diffrenet .
i am sorry for your suffering and do not give up you can sue them all..
For every story that’s exposed by an outspoken victim, hundreds go unreported. FUCK THE CORRUPT INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT.
that is what i am after reading this story. i have no doubts that what you wrote is accurate and am saying it aloud: IM ASHAMED TO BE A JORDANIAN where such acts go unnoticed and unaccounted for.
dear hussien, your story was very touching and i hope some action will be taken. am so sorry for what u had to go through. i hope ur father gets better soon. dont give up pls. fight for ur right even if it was against the hole government. take care my friend.
DEAR JORDANIAN BLOGGERS: please show your solitude during such times and let us all stand by our brother here who he and his family went through a lot. i assure u,, we can do it,, we can get hussein’s voice heard. i decided to start my own blog just to help highlight such incidents.
i forgot to add,,, did His Highness Prince Hamzeh ever think of visiting that hospital and checking what goes on there and the pain people go through in a hospital that carries his name?
I AM 100000% SURE THAT IF HE DID HE WILL IMMEDIATELY ASK FOR HIS NAME TO BE REMOVED FROM IT!!!!!!!!!
Dear hussin
i’m sry to hear that
alah eshfy ur dad,,, ow trully i’m sry for that all,,,
el 7amd lelah 3ala kol shy.
الأخ حسين. يرجى محاولة ترجمة هذه المقالة إلى العربية وذلك لإعتقادي الراسخ إنه المسؤولين عنا ما راح يفهموا إنت شو كتبت عشانهم كثير فهمانين زي ما حضرتك لاحظت. أتمنى الشفاء العاجل للوالد وإن شاء الله إنه هالمستشفى أو هالمسلخ على قولتك بيوخذ جزائه .
لعنة الله عليهم
I emailed it to couple of editors i know
7amdella 3ala salameto. So sorry to hear this happened to your family. Wishing him a speedy recovery.
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I can’t believe this happening.
My dear friend Husain, I truly wish your father a fast and great recovery and I hope you and your family succeed in your attempt to get your rights from the hospital.
I will try to get 7DAYS, a local newspaper here with a zest for scandals, to publish your post.
Hussein … 7amdellah 3ala salamet el waled and may he get well soon inshallah
I think that you must write an article in Arabic and don’t just talk to Watan FM, also talk to Al Wakeel and make a big fuss about it … they need to learn that human life is sacred and people working in the most humane profession need to be humans to be able to do it
I am sorry for all what you had to go through
يا جماعه الخير، المشكله هي ليست في ماقامت به الممرضه،أنتم تتحدثون عن عوارض المرض، المشكله تكمن في نضام أستبداي في كل ما تعنيه الكلمه،الشعب المغلوب علي أمره ليس له حول ولا قوه هذه الامور تحصل يوميأ في مستشفياتنا العريق،هناك شئ أسمو المحاسبه لمسؤل ،أين هي تلك هذه المحاسبه؟ ومين بحاسب مين ؟ هذاالنضام لا يمكن التستر عليه وأنا أعتقد وأجزم ،أن النضام لا يمكن أن يصلح لي أي شئ ،وقد أعلن أفلاسه من قديم الزمان أ
I am really sorry to hear this Husain, Alf 7amdillah 3la salamto. Enshallah he will be ok.
I think you should go ahead and sue them, winning might be a long shot who know’s but people will know about it and they will be exposed.
This is beyond outrageous!! Everyone should know this, and it should be rubbed right into the face of the government, who are professionals for unacknowledging the elepahnt in the room
Hussein, I’m so sorry for your dad, and I hope he’ll get better soon.
As Khalidah said, I think this must be translated to Arabic to reach more people.
7amdillah 3alla salamet 2il waled, now am not sure what would be the best case to go about this but since you are thinking about suing and the people that commented here say that there are similar cases then that just sounds like a class action lawsuit which will carry more strength to all parties plus it will peak the medias curiosity.
thats all i can think of now, and hope your dad has a speedy recovery
I really don’t know what to say to all of you great people. The comments you left and the posts some of you have written are just overwhelming.
You proved that our blogosphere is not merely a virtual space, but a solid entity that can achieve something, even if it was to educate and raise awareness of what people with no great financial means should expect from the Jordanian health system.
Thank you again! I’ll try and translate the article to Arabic and I’ll keep you posted on what happens.
Sorry for this story but i do wish that you do proceed with the law and media and don’t let the story go this easy.
I do know a university student who had Meningitis “sa7aya” and he did go to the student’s clinic at the university of jordan 4 times and each time he was diagnosed with cold and given aspirin- though not a doctor, cold is a symptom and not a cause-in the last visit he had a kind of a rash “http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/meningitis.htm” and had all symptoms of the disease and they refused to hosptilize him and instead gave a medicine against alergy. 2 days later, the guy passed away. His parents -and he is the only son- where about to also to take the case to court but ppl didn’t let them which made me mad as i am not related so please proceed with the court even if it will only cause a buzz and nothing else
thank god for ur dads recovery, and inshalla it will be the end of sadness for u, god damn those guy’s, really makes ur blood boil.
thx for the share and our hearts are with u
OMG! I am so sorry to hear about what your father had to go through. I am glad that his health is stable now. Hope he will recover soon.
Those butchers should pay for what they did! I hope you will win the case.
my GOD this is very tragic, its like im reading a script of an egyptian movie. im so sorry u & ur family had to go thru all this pain & misery.
how is ur father now? please tell us some good news when u have time.
jamal bustami
Although I don’t know u…but en7ara2 dammi 3ala ur father… 7amdellah 3ala salamtu w rabna y2emu bilsalameh….ma elna ela n2ool 7asbuna allah wa ne3ma l wakeel
El7amdelah 3alasalamat elwaled.
There’s really nothing to say. The story you just told is typical of many Jordanian public hospitals. Bashir is an example of that. Bas el7amdulellah, I’m glad things are getting better and hopefully as the days go on they’ll continue to get better.
spreading the word is a good idea.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your father.
Although I know it is of no help to know this, American hospitals can be far worse. In Los Angeles recently, emergency room doctors ignored a woman who was writhing in pain on the floor and bleeding from the mouth for nearly an hour before she died, despite repeated calls from bystanders to 911. The 911 operators said there was nothing they could do since she was already at the hospital. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19207050/
Bless you for your perseverance in finding your father. Because of you, he is still alive, and he has his family to help him. Your father is truly fortunate to have such a son.
Subhan’Allah. Thank GOD you guys found him and may He reward the patient in the room who had more concern and morals than the “caring staff” and gave him the food and medicine.
SUE THEM. Contact all the newspapers, TV, radio, whoever. This is unacceptable. It should concern all who live in Jordan b/c (la smah’Allah) it could be us or our family next time.
This is another example of how CHEAP we jordanians are to our government. Honestley I started crying when I heared this story, not because it was something surprising or abnormal, no but because I imagined that this may simply happened to my father or a close person. Our problem as Jordanians is that we bring this all to our selves, we make our selves cheap and so our government see us cheap, when we hear about people dying from shawerma or poisoned water we make NO ACTIONS other than start making fun of that issue and sometimes blame people . We do NOT take it as an insult to each and every one of us , you me and anybody can be the next victem of God knows what issues may happen in Jordan soon. We should all look at our selves in another way , we are not cheap slaves , we are valuable , those 100,000,000 $ payed to build this damn hospital is all from me and you all , its from Husains Father’s works and efforts during his life , its from tax we pay on the air we breath, we should wake up and say JORDAN IS FOR US ALL NOT FOR YOU , WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS , WE DESERVE A BETTER LIFE.
All my best wishes to Abu - Hussien and for hundreds ( or thousands ) of same cases in different places ( hospitals , prisons , schools …. )
Marvin the Martian ,,What is the value of your comment?just because it is happening in LA we should except it in Jordan ,My friend,two wrongs does not make it right.