body,td,th { font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; } Oftentimes one would hear about the mistreatment and alleged malpractice at the KHMH, the long waiting periods, the ill treatment of patients, the lack of supplies and medication, the list can go on…. But today one fortunate soul stopped by to tell us about the impeccable care she received during a 2 to 3 week stay at the hospital, after a near death experience.
Slyvia Waight is 70 years old and has a multitude of health complications - the kind that often accompany advanced age.
Apart from being diabetic, Waight was recently hospitalized with a case of double pneumonia.
Slyvia Waight, Treated at KHMH
"In mid August I wasn't very well. I was, I went to the, I was sent to the KHMH to be treated for double pneumonia and a blood clot in the left lung. I want to give my profound thanks and appreciation to the KHMH for the treatment I got in there. I feel that I was treated very well, I was in the ICU unit in the intensive care unit, one foot in there and one foot in the graveyard. At KHMH they took care of me. Everybody was very professional, medication was given to time, nobody was spoken I'll to, nobody was treated roughly. You know sometimes for the public to decry and downgrade and lambaste the hospital in my opinion is very wrong because the hospital does a lot of good and this is why I am here because I feel that it is my moral duty to come and say something for the hospital. I am here speaking with you because they saved my life."
They saved her life and she maintains that the hospital displayed the utmost professional medical care, despite the frequent adverse public commentary about the facility:
Slyvia Waight, Treated at KHMH
"Yes they attended to me very quickly. The first thing they did, I wasn't even well out of the ambulance yet when they put the little swab in my nose to check for covid, for covid-19 but it wasn't this it was double pneumonia from the start from the get go. "
"They came they checked on how I was because the nurse that I spoke about every now and again, nurse Herera as well they would come and ask how I was doing, in fact the female nurse she would come in the mornings and evenings. She would come and tell me she is coming to check my vitals which would be I think the pulse and I'm not sure what else but they treated me very well. I don't feel as if I was in a public hospital; it felt very much like being in a private hospital. Everybody was so very polite, nobody was spoken roughly to, I was in the intensive care unit and everyone was given the same treatment."
