Up to 300 nurses and midwives in a hospital in Sydney, where a two -year -old boy died after a series of systematic failures will strike on Friday.
Employees of the Embattled Northern Beaches Hospital, run by private operator Healthscope, runs from work on Friday from 6 a.m. in an industrial ban of 26 hours.
An overtime ban will be enforced, but emergency departments will remain open.
Nurses focus on concern about wages and safer personnel levels with employees in Campbelltown and Nepean hospitals who also participate.
The industrial action comes only a few hours after the destroyed parents of the two -year -old Joe Massa called for a parliamentary assessment in the hospital in northern Sydney.
Elouise and Danny Massa took their 'clear and loving' baby boy Joe to the hospital on the morning of September 14 after he broke violently the night and gagging in their house in Balgowlah.
The toddler died two days later in the intensive care of the hospital in intensive care after he had introduced a cardiac arrest and suffered serious and irreversible brain damage.
The couple believes that Joe would still live today if he was not incorrectly categorized by a nurse for emergency department (ED) at the end of their 12 -hour night shift.
Joe Massa (photo) died in the Northern Beache's Hospital after having sustained a cardiac arrest in September last year and suffered serious and irreversible brain damage
Employees of the Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney in northern Sydney (photo) ends on Friday from 6 a.m. in an industrial ban of 26 hours
The toddler was classified triage category three that was marked for doctors in the ED that he would have treatment within 30 minutes.
But an independent assessment discovered that Joe's dangerously elevated heartbeat and 'pale and floppy' appearance meant that he should have been documented as a category two or in the 'red zone' that would have seen him within 10 minutes.
Instead, Joe spent two and a half hours on a chairman of the Emergency Department where he received a wrong diagnosis as a suffering from Gastro.
The two -year -old went weak, his heartbeat continued to shoot and he lost consciousness as his mother was more sad.
He didn't get a bed until Mrs. Massa shouted, “My son became blind,” while Joe's eyes began to roll back in his head.
Hours later at 10.30 am the two -year -old was transferred to the CPR, where he went into a cardiac arrest 17 minutes later.
After 29 minutes of CPR, Joe had sustained serious and irreversible brain damage and eliminated his living support two days later.
Joe's desperate parents had asked for IV drops and monitoring equipment to see his vitals and to believe that these interventions could have saved their son's lives.
Elouise Massa says that Joe would still live like a series of medical blunders (photo)
Joe was diagnosed with gastro by doctors in the Northern Beaches Hospital and spent two and a half hours in a chairman of the Emergency Department when he needed urgent care
“No parent should walk out of a hospital with their bags instead of their child,” a statement from the lecture of the masses.
“Our son should be here today. He had his entire life for him and we trusted Northern Beaches Hospital to offer the care he needed.
“Instead, he had failed at every level.”
More come.
