It does not make any sense NHS

bristol | local government | opinion/analysis Thursday September 03, 2009 01:19 by A mother Bristol- Staple Hill

Children's Hospital

If you are an adult accompanying a sick child to the Children's Hospital, and you fell sick...the NHS rules is not to offer you any help...

A couple of weeks ago my sun suffered severe tummy pain bouts that I had to call the emergency at 3:00am, we were taken to the Children’s Hospital in Bristol because this is the new instructions.
He was examined by the medical staff and we were advised to wait until the next morning to keep him under observation since they were not sure of the diagnosis, I was told the symptoms are similar to an inflamed appendix.
Since I was up all night with my son, with all that stress, I suffered severe headache, unbearable that I could not open my eyes. My son lied down on the examination table, while I was swarming on the plastic chair next to him.
I have requested a couple of pills of Panadol or any pain killer for my headache, and to my shock I found out that the NHS rules prohibits offering any medicine whatsoever to any grown up inside the children’s hospital even if he/she was one of the medical staff working there. I was told …sorry…these are the rules.
Since it was night I could not just leave my son and leave to find a nearby chemist to buy a couple of tablets to stop the excruciating pain.
I asked the doctor, what about the oath you all sworn to, to help every sick person or any human in pain? What about the medical ethics and the responsibility to relieve people’s pain? From my point of view this rule does not make any sense. If the parent suffered any serious symptoms maybe more dangerous than mine, he will be left to die because NHS adopted this rule which strangely enough has not even been explained to the doctors, at least not to the one’s I have met that night, so that they can offer the adult patient a reasonable explanation.
I would say this rule does not make sense and should be reconsidered. I wonder if this rule is equally applied against children getting sick while their parents are being treated by a doctor in an adults hospital. Would they leave a child boiling hot suffer fever for example, because the hospital is treating grown ups only???? Is this rule about expenditure and keeping the books straight? I hope not.