Perth woman sat 13 hours risking âsuffocating from insideâ as nurses scrambled to find her a bed
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A breastfeeding mother forced to spend an excruciating 13 hours in a wheelchair in a Perth emegency department, with a 25-centimetre blood clot in her thigh, was so shocked by how busy the staff were she used a zimmerframe to go to a woman calling for help from her hospital bed.
Another watched her 92-year old father, tired and distressed and fighting for his life with pneumonia, ramped in an ambulance for nearly 10 hours overnight at another Perth public hospital.
Perth woman sat 13 hours risking suffocating from inside as nurses scrambled to find her a bed
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Perth woman sat 13 hours risking suffocating from inside as nurses scrambled to find her a bed
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Courtesy of Cancer Council WA
On 28 February 2020, Cancer Council WA celebrated the 20th anniversary of the opening of Crawford Lodge.
Located in Nedlands, right near Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Crawford Lodge was purpose built to provide accommodation and vital support services to country cancer patients while they undergo treatment in Perth.
The Lodge was officially opened on 29 February 2000 by then Premier, His Excellency the Honourable Richard Court AC.
Crawford Lodge is a testament to the potential of philanthropy to make an enduring difference on the lives of others.
A large capital campaign in the late 1990s raised $5 million to build the Lodge and to help ease some of the extra burdens faced by country patients after a diagnosis. Many generous donors gave gifts to the campaign to ensure this vision was realised and a ‘home-away-from-home’ existed.