Dusseldorf - The staff of the old town soup kitchen at Castle Square is dismay and disbelief. On Monday night appeared to her a well-known medical care situations in their organization: Without shoes, with foot injuries, completely frozen and without a dime in his pocket.
The 46-year-old homeless Uwe D. was discharged a few hours earlier with a purulent inflammation of the forefoot and a fracture of the metatarsal bone of the Gerresheimer hospital. The foot injuries the man had only protected by bandages and Plastiküberzieher.
First, Marion Gather entertained of the soup kitchen suspect Uwe D. could have himself discharged from the hospital. But the social workers, the patient was able to submit a preliminary letter of surgery, which confirmed his dismissal.
For Marion Gather impudence. "It's incredible how the hospital treats its homeless patients! The poor man had to be all the way from Gerresheim to penetrate into the old town. "
Even more, she grieves that the hospital should have known that Uwe D. has a caregiver who cares for him. "But that was not even informed about the dismissal of his protege."
In addition, the hospital still had a social service that would have the patient in an institution for homeless people can get.
Gerresheimer the hospital is the unpleasant incident. In a letter to Express says: "By regularly connecting the feet to the lack of footwear is not noticed. The employees involved regret the incident. We'll get back together with Uwe D. and strive to redress. "
Uwe D. was taught in the meantime, the soup kitchen to a care facility, and then cured from his injury.
