I recently resigned from the NSW Dept. of Education so I might bring to the public several issues that I had been banned from writing about. The bans were illegal. Since resigning, the media have not wanted to report my issues, saying they have been gagged by the NSW Government.
Mr Dreyer, pictured, would not want an inquiry, except mismanagement of health resources have led to a terrible tragedy for his family.
"There is no deadline to our ongoing grief and suffering," Mr Dreyer said.
"It has cost both of us terrible grief and we will always be wondering if the outcome would have been different if we had been treated as a priority."
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Senior Surgeons Threaten NSW Govt. With Resignation
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Fix the hospital or we'll quit: doctors
from news.com.au
SENIOR surgeons are threatening to resign if the Government does not restore Royal North Shore Hospital to its former glory.
Their warning came as the couple who sparked the latest inquiry, Mark Dreyer and Jana Horska, broke down as they relived their ordeal of her miscarrying in the hospital's toilet.
Silence fell over the room as Mr Dreyer detailed the night his wife lost their unborn child on September 25, when Ms Horska was 14weeks pregnant.
"There is no deadline to our ongoing grief and suffering," Mr Dreyer said.
"It has cost both of us terrible grief and we will always be wondering if the outcome would have been different if we had been treated as a priority."
Christian Democrats' leader Fred Nile, the parliamentary inquiry committee's chairman, promised the couple "the inquiry won't fail you".
Mr Dreyer said he had no faith in the Government for implementing change.
"I think people would have had a lot more respect for (Premier) Morris Iemma to come out and take the politics out of it, take away the political spin which has been very hurtful for us," he said.
"The insensitivity has just been unbelievable, they don't understand the pain they cause with this rubbish they peddle."
There is only one more day of public hearings, on Monday, before the committee retires to consider its recommendations. But it has been swamped with damning complaints which doctors from the hospital have said are an embarrassment.
The inquiry was told equipment was so inadequate that only the competence of surgeons had prevented harm coming to patients.
Director of medical services Dr Sharon Miskell said there had been instances where equipment was broken, inadequate or non-existent.
"We are unable to perform surgery, we are delaying surgery," she said.
Three of the hospital's senior surgeons spoke of their embarrassment at the gradual decay of the once marquee hospital.
Area director of intensive and critical care Professor Malcolm Fisher warned he was on the brink of quitting.
"The findings of this committee and the response of the health department are crucial," he said.
"They will determine if we give this a go or walk."
Other doctors described the health department's "inept system" as failing patients as well as being the cause of the hospital's loss of staff.
Intensive care director Dr Ray Raper said he was embarrassed this week at a patient's recount of a hospital stay.
"My colleagues have been telling me for a long time they are embarrassed of the conditions of the hospital," he said.
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