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June, 11

Lothian health centre has been witnessing massive mix-ups of medicine by the health workers, causing great trouble for patients. It was known that the prescriptions are being issued without the dosage and drugs are given to wrong patients, not only this, medication too is also not given on time to the needy patients. There are so many such cases of irregularity in which patients have to bear the mistakes done by the medical staffs.

The reason for this apathy from the side of the medical staffs is said to be due to the high number of patients coming for treatments. This increase in the number of patients has put the health care staff under huge pressure which results to the errors done by them. If we look at the figures we can work out that during July to September last year, 14 such mistakes were tracked which were committed by the health practitioners. In the number of mistakes occurred, half of the errors were made by the health workers while administering medicine, meanwhile other 52 were made while prescribing them.

Mick McGahey, Unison branch secretary for NHS Lothian’s University Hospital Division said, the mistakes occurred due to undue pressure and also due to shortage of staff to handle the number of patients. He added, it is like a drop in the ocean compared to the number of patients nurses. He stressed for the need of more staff to tackle the situation more effectively.

The number of such irregularities has put the patients also on shock with lot of mistakes occurring in due course of the treatments by the health staff. It is hoped that this trend of such errors will come down in near future and Lothian patients can expect a quality and flawless treatment ahead.

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