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Akino Bascombe - Trinidad, Tobago / Caribbean - Posted: 1st Aug, 2010 - 4:52pm
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Burn victim being avoided by nurses
Akino Bascombe
This story is heartbreaking, if you see the picture and video even more. How is it possible that a citizen of this country is left to die and suffer this way? What kind of training nurses in Trinidad and Tobago have that would cause them to avoid and scorn him because of the offensive stench the legs give off?
Please meet Akino:
QUOTE Despite undergoing 12 skin grafts at three of T&T's hospitals, burn victim Akino Bascombe is nowhere close to recovery and is now living a life of misery and hopelessness. So much so, Akino's 42-year-old mother Debra Bascombe of Argyle, Tobago, is appealing to Health Minister Therese Baptiste-Cornelis to help save her son's dwindling life. With each passing day, a helpless Bascombe sees Akino's life slipping from her hands. Akino, Bascombe's second child, sustained third-degree burns on the legs on December 9 2005 while bursting bamboo near his Argyle home in Tobago. Driven by reflex action and adrenaline, Akino tried outing the raging flames using his hands, which were also scorched.
Since the unfortunate incident, Bascombe said Akino's life has been an uphill battle, having undergone 12 skin grafts at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and Scarborough Regional Hospital in the last 56 months with no sight of improvement. Skin taken from Akino's hands by plastic surgeons for the grafts, Bascombe said, has left his arms lifeless. Looking pale and weak due to constant pain he endures, Akino in a faint voice spoke of his struggles, even begging God on Thursday to take his life. As tears welled in his eyes, Akino related the horror he faces whenever he goes to the Scarborough Regional Hospital to have the bandages on his legs changed.
He stated that nurses who once cleaned his oozing wounds were now avoiding and scorning him because of the offensive stench the legs give off. Akino described the odour as rotted meat which can be smelt several metres away. Bascombe said the minute her son visits the hospital the nurses would come up with all sorts of excuses to avoid changing the bandages. "They would tell Akino that there are insufficient nurses or they don't have any bandages available which would really infuriate me because a hospital ought not to discriminate but treat sick people." The mother of three complained that when the bandages stay on for long periods, maggots would infest Akino's legs...
Since the unfortunate incident, Bascombe said Akino's life has been an uphill battle, having undergone 12 skin grafts at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital, Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and Scarborough Regional Hospital in the last 56 months with no sight of improvement. Skin taken from Akino's hands by plastic surgeons for the grafts, Bascombe said, has left his arms lifeless. Looking pale and weak due to constant pain he endures, Akino in a faint voice spoke of his struggles, even begging God on Thursday to take his life. As tears welled in his eyes, Akino related the horror he faces whenever he goes to the Scarborough Regional Hospital to have the bandages on his legs changed.
He stated that nurses who once cleaned his oozing wounds were now avoiding and scorning him because of the offensive stench the legs give off. Akino described the odour as rotted meat which can be smelt several metres away. Bascombe said the minute her son visits the hospital the nurses would come up with all sorts of excuses to avoid changing the bandages. "They would tell Akino that there are insufficient nurses or they don't have any bandages available which would really infuriate me because a hospital ought not to discriminate but treat sick people." The mother of three complained that when the bandages stay on for long periods, maggots would infest Akino's legs...
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