On New Years Eve 2005 22-year old Estonian had a traffic accident and was taken to Tallinn biggest hospital, after month in emergency department - still in comatose - he was taken to neurosurgery department and as he had got the MRSA virus in hospital left alone in room for weeks with his mom allowed to visit him only one hour per day. The doctors told mother his son has zero chances to survive and left the boy without treatment that could have avoided his later health problems. After the weeks in that Tallinn hospital he was taken to another establishment of the same hospital in Keila where he was starved to 33-kg by the time a nurse told family to take the boy home immediately or he will die.
"The nurse said their department was going to holiday and in other department it would take few days - and we will loose him. I also found out they had feeded him almost with nothing else but just a water. When I asked another nurse then how is it possible they treat him like this she made me clear I am not normal if I cant understand that he is not starving but his brain is so damaged its not absorbing any food. He was 33-kg when he arrived home and we started to treat and feed him ourselves. After being six months in comatose he woke up at home and step by step we won him back to life. He has no brain damage at all. Only after we met a doctor who started to treat him to get him off from bed, and stand again, we felt first time we had met a doctor who really cared for him. Five years later we are still struggling with results of the doctors who left him without treatment that could have avoided the muscle problems he now has," history teacher E. Lindmäe told at the seminar in Tallinn at Parliament Conference centre on Jan. 21, 2011.
Another Estonian teacher, R. Pener wrote in February 2011 in a long article (at weekly EE site) "You should have a really strong, iron-strong health when you got to meet a doctor or to hospital in Estonia./.../The work of doctors could be so much better without these annoying patients in that country. /.../It is good to live in Estonia until you have a close relations with ruling political elite and until you have a very good health."
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