in the months that have been clamped in more of the hours of the day can 88-year-old Kamma and her relatives finally look forward to a dignified life without fixation.
That happens after Ankestyrelsen have determined that the Municipality of Thisted bread Act, when it was decided that Kamma should be clamped.
And the decision to welcome social and the interior, Astrid Krag (S).
– I am glad that there has now been a clarification. It has been sad to read the many articles on the matter, and I hope that the decision can provide peace to the family and to the Kamma, she writes in an email to Ekstra Bladet.
Map of Kammas case
if Kamma have removed a knyste. After the first operation followed five further, because at the nursing home consistently went the infection in the operationssåret. Kamma thus end up with to get around one leg amputated.
print the Kamma from his first benamputation. When she comes back at the nursing home, she is immediately put in the belt. The belt must prevent that she falls out of the bed and the wheelchair.
gets the families and experts more and more skeptical. They do not believe that the municipality has tried other, less intrusive methods, as the law requires. In addition, they do not believe that the supervision of Kamma is enough to ensure her against being choked by the belt.
asks the relatives about written documentation regarding the decision and approval to use the harness. On this day is mentioned for the first time alternatives to selenium in the Kammas plejehjemsjournaler. However, as the proposal is not effectively proven approaches.
The families have been promised that they will get the written documentation latest this day, but they receive nothing.
while the relatives are on holiday, comes the written documentation that they asked for a month ago. It is put in the Kammas mailbox, and on the paper it says that it is from the 20. June. But it can not be verified, since the letter comes without poststempel.
the complaints of the relatives of both the municipality of Thisted and Ankestyrelsen. They also go to the media, where the municipality practices are being criticized by experts and politicians. More send the case to the Agency for Patient safety.
rejects the Thisted Municipality the relatives ‘ complaint.
extends the Thisted municipality, the approval to use the harness until 21 October.
beats Ankestyrelsen fixed to the fixation of Kamma is in violation of the Act. Thisted Municipality must therefore immediately stop using the stofseler to secure the Kamma.
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the Rules on the use of force falls under Astrid Krag ministry, and she expects that the municipality will now provide the Kamma the right care:
– I expect to the Municipality of Thisted dishes after Ankestyrelsens decision and ensures the right treatment, care and support for Kamma.
below you can see preview of Ankestyrelsens decision in the Kamma-case:
At Alzheimerforeningen is also happy Ankelstyrelsens decision. The association warned along with the Kammas relatives time and time again through the four months Thisted Municipality, to the fixation of the Kamma was in violation of the rules.
– We are therefore very pleased that Ankestyrelsen now have made a decision that makes that Kamma comes out of the harness. Now the Municipality of Thisted then in time with it, they should have done nearly four months ago and find out how to Kamma the right care and support, says executive director Nis Peter Nissen.
– When it is said and done, we are still deeply puzzled as to why it should be the relatives who shall make the municipality aware of it here. They have from the very outset raised the question whether it was legally and been in dialogue with the municipality about it. Nevertheless, there goes four months before the municipality fixed check – in and it was only because that Ankestyrelsen came in over the. It is deeply critical, he says.
Kamma-case Past day the pillar of shame in Thisted Past day the Citizens of bæltefikserede Kamma: – It is a disaster Past day Relatives in shock: The municipality lies Past day Nursing home, prolongs the fixation of the demented: – It is obnoxious Past day the Demented fixation of the bowel movement: – I can just as well take my own life Past day Kamma clamped in nursing homes: – Now, it is enough: Past day So dangerous can stofseler be: Several have been suffocated
