Blog # 7 , Revision; The Woman Who Died in th Waiting Room.

    Generally, a hospital is a place where people are expected to get help and treat their diseases, but in “The Woman Who Died in the Waiting Room” by Jeneen Interlandi, she writes about how mentally ill patients are treated badly in public hospitals and in our society. She also describes poor mentally challenge patients do not get proper care.   Esmis Green, who died in a waiting room of a psych emergency room and also in front of two security officers and a nurse who was on duty at that time. Furthermore, she also states that poor and uninsured mental patients suffer the most due to not enough out patient’s services and lack of community based support. I completely agree with Miss Interlandi that the poor and uninsured mental patients don’t get proper care because of insufficient out patient’s services in our community.

     First of all, it is very unfortunate for a mental patient in our country because most of the large psychiatric hospitals are closing and reducing their services. Because of less funding from the government and communities, Miss Interlandi says, “Large mental hospitals began closing their doors en masse.”  Like I heard that the Santa Barbara Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Hospital is reducing the available beds and other services to save money. They are reducing from around 300 to 100 beds to save about $800,000 a year for the hospital. The hospital is providing care to 1,300 uninsured mental patients who are costing the hospital nearly $3.5 million within six months. The hospital believes that if the cost of services continue go like this then there will be not much money left to provide service to the patient who are already there and the hospital is complained that they didn’t get much support from the government and communities to this kind a problem.  It is sad thing that our mentally challenge brothers and sisters have to suffer like this even as we are living in a country which is known to be the most rich and advanced country in the world.

   It is also depressing that even the mental patients who get treatment are not safe in their place. For example, I recently I read in a newspaper that one mental patient got killed by a fellow inmate in their prison hospital. Even with maximum security in mental hospital, a patient of Maryland hospital got killed by a fellow inmate. It says this incident was the second time in a week and the third time in the past 13months. A secretary of the Maryland hospital acknowledged that more needed to be done for the safety of the patients. I agree with her and her hospital needs support from the government and from our community to improve the lives and safely of our mentally ill brothers and sisters.

   Hence, it is a disturbing news to hear in present days that Eswin Green, a mantel patient, died in an emergency room due to lack of care and services in a mental hospital because I have hearing  from the most leaders who run the government that  compare to early men, we are more civilized and educated because of the government . But where is that the government when the mental people need help and support.  Therefore, the government and community should do something to prevent this kind an incident happen over and over again and do help to provide some funding those mental hospital who  need help  to the mentally challenge patients.