Diabetes patient Zaheer Khan (Picture LT) A 38-year-old hospital patient was sent home with plastic tubes still attached to both his arms. And now the family from Accrington want to know why he was discharged so early without proper care taken. The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust apologised and urged anyone who ‘feels they have experienced care which falls below expectations’ to get in touch directly. Diabetes patient Zaheer Khan was admitted to Royal Blackburn Hospital on Monday April 26 after an ambulance was called at 10.40pm. A day later he was wheeled to the front of the hospital to be picked up by the family.
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Miners in Chiatura, Georgia strike to demand pay increase and improved conditions
Over 3,000 workers in the Georgian mining town of Chiatura joined an indefinite walkout on April 23 to demand Georgian Manganese grant a 50 percent pay rise, health insurance and environmental protections for the area near the mine.
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Governance Monitoring Center, drivers working for the company in Chiatura wrote to the Minister of Health listing their demands hiring a lawyer to represent them rather than acting through the union and walked out on April 19. They were joined on April 23 by miners and other workers at Georgian Manganese.
Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike
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NHS frontline staff outside the BBC last September depict the 640 healthcare workers that have died from Covid-19, the total deaths now number over 1,000
BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts as part of a month-long strike action over ‘bad faith’ by bosses who reneged on an upgrading pay agreement.
Their union Unite warned that the impact could mean the Accident & Emergency department at the Royal Blackburn Hospital will close at night and weekends.
The partial strike by biomedical scientists is part of a long-running pay dispute. Their union Unite claims the trust has backtracked on a 2019 agreement to upgrade the 21 staff to a higher grade on their specialist pay scale. They analyse patient blood samples at the Royal Blackburn and the Burnley General Teaching Hospitals. After an 85 per cent vote for industrial action the scientists will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts for a month. They will only work on their core days – Monday to Friday from 8.45am to 5pm and early shifts from 7am to 3pm from May 7 until June 4. Kate Quinn from the trust said any industrial action would not affect emergency care at the Royal Blackburn and said many staff had been regraded.
Coronavirus testing is going to be extended at Royal Blackburn Hospital East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust was caring for 10 coronavirus patients in hospital as of Tuesday, figures show. NHS England data shows the number of people being treated in hospital for Covid-19 by 8am on April 20 was down from 14 on the same day the previous week. The number of beds at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust occupied by people who tested positive for Covid-19 decreased by 57 per cent in the last four weeks – 28 days ago, there were 23. Across England there were 1,649 people in hospital with Covid as of April 20, with 273 of them in mechanical ventilation beds.