Post-hospital treatment
I was interested to read the report (October 27) of the conference on primary care recently organised by the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses - MUMN. The testimony given by Doris Testa vividly bears out the worry and anxiety suffered by a patient...
I was interested to read the report (October 27) of the conference on primary care recently organised by the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses - MUMN.
The testimony given by Doris Testa vividly bears out the worry and anxiety suffered by a patient when s/he comes to return home from hospital to face the day-to-day demands of domestic life.
As Ms Testa stated, the free use of such terms as “assessor” does not help. It is, perhaps, a detail but it still betrays an immature approach by a hospital official at a delicate time in a patient’s journey to recovery.
Nursing officer Sharon Martinelli did well to underline that she visited Testa the day following her transfer to see to her needs and to explain to her how Comcare, a Health Department Unit set up in 2005, would see that she would get all the necessary follow-up nursing and home-help support required.
What is not stated in the report, inadvertently, I am sure, is that the nursing and home-help services would be given by nurses and home care assistants belonging to MMDNA.
The MMDNA is a community nursing service that has been in existence since 1947, with an unbroken record of dedicated and competent home service to the population of Malta and Gozo for almost 70 years.