Since Tuesday (3), manicurist Érica Soares Rodrigues has been experiencing a drama with her 72-year-old father, admitted to the West Emergency Care Unit (UPA) in Ribeirão Preto (SP). She claims that employees neglect the elderly person, who needs palliative care because of cancer.
Érica made a video to show the situation and published it on social media. In the images, Homero Rodrigues appears tied to a bed, urinating and writhing in pain. According to her, no tranquilizers or painkillers were given.
“It is a very painful situation. My father worked his whole life, pays taxes and having to live in this situation at the end of his life is sad. It hurts our hearts. I want a vacancy [no hospital] so he doesn’t suffer so much”, he says.
g1 contacted Ribeirão Preto City Hall and is awaiting a response on the complaint.
Hospitalization
Érica says that her father has metastasized and was taken to UPA Oeste by ambulance on Tuesday, where he remains hospitalized.
“They identified that he was very weak. He has obstruction in the right lung, fluid in the left, obstruction in the intestine. They left it there until there was a vacancy for the HC,” he says.
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72-year-old elderly man needs palliative care, but his daughter complains about inhumane care at UPA Oeste in Ribeirão Preto, SP — Photo: Personal archive
Despite being informed of the vacancy request, no transfer took place until this Saturday (7). Over the course of the week, Homer’s health worsened, according to his daughter. The way her father, who has been ill since 2019, has been treated is what leaves her most appalled.
“They washed my father and left my father dirty with feces for a long time, for about four hours. I went there and asked to clean it, because it was very dirty, leaking, very bad smell, and the employees said they would do more. I bought a bunch of diapers, does she need to poop on top of poop? You do not need that. ‘But that’s how it is,’ the answer. Very uneducated.”
On Friday, the elderly man was diagnosed with Covid and had to be taken to an isolation area, which, according to Érica, only made the situation worse.
“They didn’t let me keep it, but nobody cares. My father asks for water all the time, it makes him thirsty, and no one is there. I was stubborn. Isolation is an area far away from where they [enfermeiros] they stay, and then they really don’t go. Lots of dirt, pee. I can’t change it alone, it’s too heavy. But they take too long. Then I filmed it, to show the situation. He was very agitated, and they tied him up. I asked for a tranquilizer and nothing.”
Érica insists that her father would be better treated if he were in a hospital, but the only answer she receives is that there is no space.
“They keep saying there are no vacancies. The doctor came to tell me that the isolation space is even more difficult to leave, but he hadn’t had Covid since Tuesday. Yesterday my father went into isolation. He caught Covid inside. He is very weak and delirious.”
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Since Tuesday (3), manicurist Érica Soares Rodrigues has been experiencing a drama with her 72-year-old father, admitted to the West Emergency Care Unit (UPA) in Ribeirão Preto (SP). She claims that employees neglect the elderly person, who needs palliative care because of cancer.
Érica made a video to show the situation and published it on social media. In the images, Homero Rodrigues appears tied to a bed, urinating and writhing in pain. According to her, no tranquilizers or painkillers were given.
“It is a very painful situation. My father worked his whole life, pays taxes and having to live in this situation at the end of his life is sad. It hurts our hearts. I want a vacancy [no hospital] so he doesn’t suffer so much”, he says.
g1 contacted Ribeirão Preto City Hall and is awaiting a response on the complaint.
Hospitalization
Érica says that her father has metastasized and was taken to UPA Oeste by ambulance on Tuesday, where he remains hospitalized.
“They identified that he was very weak. He has obstruction in the right lung, fluid in the left, obstruction in the intestine. They left it there until there was a vacancy for the HC,” he says.
72-year-old elderly man needs palliative care, but his daughter complains about inhumane care at UPA Oeste in Ribeirão Preto, SP — Photo: Personal archive
Despite being informed of the vacancy request, no transfer took place until this Saturday (7). Over the course of the week, Homer’s health worsened, according to his daughter. The way her father, who has been ill since 2019, has been treated is what leaves her most appalled.
“They washed my father and left my father dirty with feces for a long time, for about four hours. I went there and asked to clean it, because it was very dirty, leaking, very bad smell, and the employees said they would do more. I bought a bunch of diapers, does she need to poop on top of poop? You do not need that. ‘But that’s how it is,’ the answer. Very uneducated.”
On Friday, the elderly man was diagnosed with Covid and had to be taken to an isolation area, which, according to Érica, only made the situation worse.
“They didn’t let me keep it, but nobody cares. My father asks for water all the time, it makes him thirsty, and no one is there. I was stubborn. Isolation is an area far away from where they [enfermeiros] they stay, and then they really don’t go. Lots of dirt, pee. I can’t change it alone, it’s too heavy. But they take too long. Then I filmed it, to show the situation. He was very agitated, and they tied him up. I asked for a tranquilizer and nothing.”
Érica insists that her father would be better treated if he were in a hospital, but the only answer she receives is that there is no space.
“They keep saying there are no vacancies. The doctor came to tell me that the isolation space is even more difficult to leave, but he hadn’t had Covid since Tuesday. Yesterday my father went into isolation. He caught Covid inside. He is very weak and delirious.”
