The Commissioner for Health in the Office of the Ombudsman, in a statement today has condemned, what is a further set of industrial actions, which it said, will affect patients in hospitals and also residents in old people’s homes.
The Health Commissioner said that despite having last week condemned similar directives issued by a union, now another has gone a step further – The Commissioner did not mention the name of the union involved.
It said that, “patients and residents will not be bathed and helped to mobilise, and that there will be no changing of nappies. This affects mainly patients and residents who are incontinent.”
The Commissioner for Health concluded by once again, condemning “without reservations such directives which go against the dignity of the human being. This is an attack on the most vulnerable persons.”