Hospital...

The Loony Bin ( loonies@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk )
Wed, 18 Sep 1996 15:59:12 +0100


Hiya All...

Here's yet another daft piece from Alan...

Wishes & Dreams...

- ANDREA
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Too Stupid to be Untrue:


  "For several months, our nurses have been baffled to find a dead 
  patient in the same bed every Friday morning" a spokeswoman for the 
  Pelonomi Hospital (Free State, South Africa) told reporters. "There 
  was no apparent cause for any of the deaths, and extensive checks on 
  the air conditioning system, and a search for possible bacterial 
  infection, failed to reveal any clues."

  "However, further inquiries have now revealed the cause of these 
  deaths.  It seems that every Friday morning a cleaner would enter the 
  ward, remove the plug that powered the patient's life support system, 
  plug her floor polisher into the vacant socket, then go about her 
  business. When she had finished her chores, she would plug the life 
  support machine back in and leave, unaware that the patient was now 
  dead. She could not, after all, hear the screams and eventual death 
  rattle over the whirring of her polisher.

  "We are sorry, and have sent a strong letter to the cleaner in 
  question. Further, the Free State Health and Welfare Department is 
  arranging for an electrician to fit an extra socket, so there should 
  be no repetition of this incident. The enquiry is now closed."

  from (Cape Times, 6/13/96)
  BTW, the headline of the newspaper story was, "Cleaner Polishes Off 
  Patients."