An Idiots Tale

[tutor4u]

A patient being treated for respiratory problems lit a cigarette while being given oxygen and was injured after the oxygen ignited, Kibris Postasi reports.

Citing Greek Cypriot daily Alithia, it was reported that the accident occurred at South Nicosia State Hospital.

Nurses extinguished the flames rapidly, the report said. The patient who received facial burns is currently in the intensive care unit on a ventilator after he also suffered from smoke inhalation.

[MnM]

My wife works in a hospital albeit in the UK and I drop her off outside A&E on my way to work. The amount of times I've seen in-patients smoking right outside the entrance, dressed in anti-slip socks, back tied gowns, occasionally in a dressing gown, some in wheelchairs, some towing a drip on a stand, some even with oxygen tubes up their nostrils, makes me utterly sick to the core. NHS staff have no authority to stop what these people consider their human right to smoke. Making them take out private healthcare insurance for smoking related treatment instead of abusing the NHS would go a long way to helping the human rights of people that require treatment for illnesses they have through no fault of their own.

[kerry 6138]

I dont smoke, would you say the same for drinkers, over eaters, world travellers, car drivers, sporty people, etc.

[Dalartokat]

My wife works in a hospital albeit in the UK and I drop her off outside A&E on my way to work. The amount of times I've seen in-patients smoking right outside the entrance, dressed in anti-slip socks, back tied gowns, occasionally in a dressing gown, some in wheelchairs, some towing a drip on a stand, some even with oxygen tubes up their nostrils, makes me utterly sick to the core. NHS staff have no authority to stop what these people consider their human right to smoke. Making them take out private healthcare insurance for smoking related treatment instead of abusing the NHS would go a long way to helping the human rights of people that require treatment for illnesses they have through no fault of their own.

It’s not unusual to see it what you describe outside U.K. hospitals. Let’s not forget that there are hospital staff, including nurses, that also smoke. Our local hospital, they sit on the outside walls to the entrance of the hospital and they are in their uniforms.
Ours has a ban on smoking anywhere on hospital grounds including bus shelters.

I don’t doubt that those employees would also consider it their human right to smoke.

[tutor4u]

You've missed the point guy's:Oxygen is not flammable, but it can cause other materials that burn to ignite more easily and to burn far more rapidly. The result is that a fire involving oxygen can appear explosive-like.

[13roman58]

Pure oxygen can and will make any thing that it leaks into 'oxygenated' add an ignition source and it,s Guy Fawkes night!

[ginge]

A patient being treated for respiratory problems lit a cigarette while being given oxygen and was injured after the oxygen ignited, Kibris Postasi reports.

Citing Greek Cypriot daily Alithia, it was reported that the accident occurred at South Nicosia State Hospital.

Nurses extinguished the flames rapidly, the report said. The patient who received facial burns is currently in the intensive care unit on a ventilator after he also suffered from smoke inhalation.

I hope the poor chap is alright.

[Keithcaley]

I hope the poor chap is alright.

At last - signs of Humanity and Compassion!