The Nurse - 5. The Final Review Report
Ms Laura Dunne PIN 112441 - Staff Nurse at St Luke’s General Hospital, Kilkenny
Finally, on 18th May 2023 I received the Final Review Report dated 17th May 2023 following my request for a review of my compliant under my Rights of Appeal with Ms Anne Slattery, General Manager, St. Luke’s General Hospital, Kilkenny (with a copy to Professor Garry Courtney, Clinical Director) by email on 21st February 2023 – see my posts titled: “The Nurse - 4. Out-of-Office“ and “The Nurse - 3. A Timely Response is Crucial” and “The Nurse - 2. Review of My Complaint” and “The Nurse - 1. My Complaint”.
Ms Barbara Smyth, Patient Engagement and Partnership Improvement Coordinator/Review Officer, Ireland East Hospital Group (IEHG) continued to use the wording “we” rather than “I” in relation to the review indicating she did not wish to take responsibility for the review, and that others were involved in the review process in breach of the Health Act 2004 (Complaints) Regulations 2006 – see my post titled: “The Nurse - 4. Out-of-Office“
The report did not name the nurse which I believe it should have done and it did not deal with “all aspects of my complaint” which is a requirement of the Health Act 2004 (Complaints) Regulations 2006. The report completely ignored the fact that following the incident on 1st January 2023 due to the inaction of the hospital management, I did not see my father again until briefly before he was injected with lethal doses of Morphine and Midazolam on the evening of Wednesday, 4th January 2023.
This lethal concoction was administered by this nurse on the order of Dr Kenneth Bolger, without informing my father, without his consent and against my wishes.
My father was conscious and awake and had capacity to make decisions about his treatment and care when this lethal concoction was injected into him and those who witnessed this described how my father began banging his arms on the bed and choking shortly after injection. That is horrific.
The position in law is that the clinician has to ask the citizen for consent for a medical intervention. My father was conscious and awake and did not give informed consent. He wanted to live and be given the help required to sustain his life, a life he loved. He did not want to die by injection.
Exemption from all medical interventions is the default position – see my post titled: “The Nurse - New Year's Day 2023”
The report in relation to this matter brushes it all under the carpet! Therefore, who is going to deal with this matter? Why did the report not state how this matter would be dealt with and who I should take the serious matter of the unlawful ending my father’s life to, rather than stating “our office is precluded from examining the actions taken by clinical staff”. This nurse is not a clinician.
Our father began banging his arms on the bed and chocking shortly after this nurse administered the lethal drugs, she began the process of ending our father’s life with these drugs. It is evident that this nurse carried out medical battery. I have reoccurring nightmares about how cruel Dr Kenneth Bolger and this nurse were to my father, he suffered greatly.
This matter has not been addressed by the report. I had asked in my request for a review for evidence from the HSE that if it is the case that a nurse can give a patient whatever medication she decides, as per her own words, then to please provide a copy of St. Luke’s General Hospital (HSE) Policy that clearly states this. None was provided.
This is how the report responded:
However, the Health Act 2004 (Complaints) Regulations 2006 states under 7. (4) Acknowledgement of Complaints:
S.I. No. 652/2006 - Health Act 2004 (Complaints) Regulations 2006 (irishstatutebook.ie)
Therefore, the serious complaint of the nurse inflicting medical battery should have been addressed by the report as it was not a clinical matter, it was a matter of a nurse assaulting a patient.
The report states under “Issue 1 – Visiting rights for family/Findings”:
This statement is a falsehood and complete nonsense – see my posts titled: “PCR – (Polymerase Chain Reaction)“ and “Behind Closed Doors”
Why would this have been a problem, we were visiting the designated “Covid Ward” and had been since 29th December 2022. We were wearing the PPE provided. My family witnessed absolutely no change to the “Covid Ward” on 1st January 2023, there was no influx of additional patients.
Ms Barbara Smyth uses the words “Covid 19 virus”. The PCR test kit the hospital uses states it only tests for SARS-CoV-2 the virus and not Covid-19 the disease. Does the reviewer not know the difference between SARS-CoV-2 the virus and Covid-19 the disease? How could there have been an outbreak of “Covid 19 virus” when there is no such thing? The virus is called SARS-CoV-2 and the disease is called Covid-19 with a completely different set of symptoms, what nonsense.
The PCR test kits used by St. Luke’s General Hospital, Kilkenny are based on common “Drosten” design, meaning they produce falsely positive samples. Using these PCR test kits, laboratories were perfectly able to produce whatever result they wanted from anyone who was tested. They even tested avocado, Coca-Cola and Papaya which produced positive results. This is totally against the rules in the field of molecular microbiology. Any PCR test has to be totally specific. If it’s not specific, it has to be redesigned. The PCR test kit used by the hospital for coronavirus was unvalidated and has been designed to be as wide ranging and aspecific (ie not specific) as possible by focusing on the genes that are most often found and the parts that are most conserved among them.
Rather “Covid-19” in my opinion is continually being used as a cover story for the Health Safety Executive’s (HSE) failures, the hospital’s poor management and its lack of appropriately trained staff. Covid-19 is a catch-all phrase!
In addition, the report did not deal with the matter of myself and my husband being escorted off the premises by a security guard who would not let us speak to anyone as we left. This was unlawful and has not been mentioned at all in the report.
All movement in the corridors of the hospital were captured on hospital CCTV, why was that not reviewed by Ms Barbara Smyth as part of her investigation? Hospital CCTV is available as I have obtained copies myself.
Following receipt of this Final Review Report, I took my complaint to the Ombudsman on 19th May 2023 regarding the manner in which my complaint was dealt with by the HSE in the performance of their administrative functions.
On 31st May 2023 following the recommendations of the report, I did receive an apology from Eleanor Moore, Operations Manager (the Interim Manager who replaced Ms Anne Slattery following her sudden and unexpected departure – see my post titled: “The Nurse - 4. Out-of-Office”):
However, this apology will never replace the time I lost with my father before his death due to the misconduct and misbehaviour of Ms Laura Dunne PIN 112441 - Staff Nurse at St Luke’s General Hospital, Kilkenny.
There was no apology for the undignified way my husband and myself were unnecessarily escorted off the premises by a security guard who would not let us speak to anyone as we left, which is unlawful.
Most importantly, there was no apology for the pain, suffering, harm and medical battery this nurse caused my dear father.