wishaw general materity unit (secrurity)

broonbear

This place is an utter disgrace. A relative of mine had some items stolen just after midnight and 2am while sleeping in a chair next to her baby and there's nothing the staff can do about it. I've told her to phone the police and they say there's nothing they can do .It's a secure ward ,you need buzzed in by a nurse so at that time of night they must have an idea who it is. It makes you wonder how safe your baby is.

kingfisherblue

broonbear wrote: »

This place is an utter disgrace. A relative of mine had some items stolen just after midnight and 2am while sleeping in a chair next to her baby and there's nothing the staff can do about it. I've told her to phone the police and they say there's nothing they can do .It's a secure ward ,you need buzzed in by a nurse so at that time of night they must have an idea who it is. It makes you wonder how safe your baby is.

Has your relative made a formal, written complaint to the hospital? Unfortunately, it may have been another patient, so the chances of getting anything back is remote.

shaun_from_Africa

kingfisherblue wrote: »

it may have been another patient,

Or maybe not:

teddysmum

Knowing who was in the room at the time of the theft, would not entitle police to accuse everyone on the grounds that it was one of them.


Hospitals do have warnings about safeguarding your own possessions, including requesting that they to be put into a safe place.

broonbear

she's pretty sure its the girl in the next bed but she has no legal right to look through her stuff, any way we're sure her partners already away with it

PasturesNew

You know all those ferals pumping out kids in the newspaper articles?

You know all those ferals scrapping on the JK show?

You know all those ferals who get drunk and fight down the town, then get arrested and are described in the papers as "mother of ...."

.... Well, guess where they spend a lot of their time.

That's why "nice girls" go private.

broonbear

teddysmum wrote: »

Knowing who was in the room at the time of the theft, would not entitle police to accuse everyone on the grounds that it was one of them.


Hospitals do have warnings about safeguarding your own possessions, including requesting that they to be put into a safe place.

totally agree, but the item was less than a metre from where she was asleep in the ch.air , it's that part that's hard to take

badmemory

Nice to see we are still blaming the victim here. Nice girls aren't the ones who can afford private care, they are too busy keeping a roof over their's and partner's head whilst on maternity leave. The hospital probably has CCTV showing exactly who stole but I am sure they will never share it. After all a hospotal employee in your 'space' would not be questioned, but anyone seeing someone elses visitor in your space would be.

Zinger549

So every girl that has a baby on the NHS is a Chavy thief then?

iammumtoone

What value of items was taken? You really shouldn't take anything of value into hospital, that is common knowledge. Sadly theft from hospitals is probably more common that people think.

I think its a step too far to compare it with how safe a baby is. There will be procedures in place to investigate quickly if anything happens to a baby but they won't have the available resources to use this every time a personal item (which to be fair probably shouldn't have been brought into the hospital) goes missing.

badmemory

So let us still blame the victim. What if they were taken into hospital suddenly and had no opportunity to remove eg jewellry and leave it at home. Does that make it okay for someone to steal it. As it disappeared between midnight and 2am it seems to be more likely that it was an employee than a visitor. All the more reason to hide the thief! I guess that your baby would have to be stolen first before you would be able to say how safe it was. Maybe if a baby was stolen then they would actually bother to look at the CCTV.