This shocking video shows a woman writhing on the floor for about an hour before dying at Kings County Hospital, while people around her, including hospital security guards, did nothing to help. Here is the rest of the story.
Esmin Green, a 49 year old hospital patient, and native of the island of Jamaica, was taken to the mental unit at Kings County Hospital in New York, for what was described as "agitation". She fell out of her chair at 5:32a.m. on June 19th. She had been sitting about 3 feet from an observation window where she would have been in view of hospital staff. Two other patients were in the waiting room with her.
Green was lying face down on the floor, her legs splayed, when a security guard walked by at 5:53 a.m. He looked at her for about 20 seconds and walked away.
She was writhing on the floor, thrashing her legs, about 6 a.m., when an entry in her medical chart states she was "awake, up and about and went to the bathroom."
She rolled on her back at 6:04a.m and stopped moving at 6:08 a.m. Two minutes later a security guard pushed his chair into camera view. He never got out of the chair, but looked at Green and scooted away. A female mental patient finally brought a hospital staffer to check the woman.Her medical chart claims she was "sitting quietly in [the] waiting room" at 6:20 a.m., although she was already dead at that time. The cause of death has not been reported.
After about an hour, a patient finally got the attention of hospital workers. Two security guards have been fired, along with four other staffers.
Hospital staff also may have falsified medical charts to attempt to hide the lack of treatment provided the patient before she died. The hospital was already under investigation by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's civil rights unit.
By the way, the patient had been waiting for almost 24 hours to be seen prior to this incident. The Kings County Hospital is government operated and funded. Anyone else for Universal Government Health Care?
