Rachel Johnston, a 49-year-old handicapped woman from british Worcestershire, have lost their lives after she had removed all her teeth.
The writes among others the BBC.
Her teeth were rotting so badly that it was assessed that the local dentist had to pull them out.
But the day after the comprehensive intervention, fainted, Rachel Johnston. She was hospitalized and placed briefly in a coma, until the doctors inform the family that there was more they could do for her.
Her mother, Diana Johnston from Evesham, tells the BBC that she had asked if it was possible to pull a few teeth out at a time from the daughter’s mouth. But it could not be done, so Rachel Johnston had to go through this whole big operation.
According to the mother had Rachel Johnston just after the operation has been of good cheer, but the day after she got a phone call from the nursing home Pirton Grange, where his daughter lived. They told that she had got it bad.
– She was bleeding a part, and her tongue was raised up. But she just lay there. It was as if there was life in her.
She was rushed to the hospital with breathing problems. Ten days after the doctors had given up and turned off the inactivity during the dead Rachel Johnston 13. november.
the Story about the 49-year-old Rachel Johnston’s death have subsequently been several disabled relatives to turn to the BBC.
One of them is Nora Ashmore, if the 32-year-old son, Kelvin underwent a similar operation after many years of problems with brushing.
she, Too, believed that the interference was ‘radical’ and ‘drastic’ for in the first place to have thought that the dentist would start with only to remove a few teeth.
Opposite, the british media insists Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, which stands for the municipal tandplejeservice, that they have followed the correct procedures for vulnerable patients.
– I was told that they would only put her in the stunning one time, says Diana Johnston.
Three individual commissions have now started to investigate Rachel Johnston’s death.
– It should not happen to such extreme treatments come as a surprise, says Sarah Coleman from Mencap, a british charity for people with learning disabilities.
She says that it is, unfortunately, not uncommon in the Uk with inadequate communication between the health care system and patients with learning disabilities and their families.
– There needs to be more done to ensure that people with learning disabilities can get access to good dental care as soon as they need it, before we reach the point where several teeth need to be pulled out.
