During the Scottish COVID inquiry, Bill Jolly shared his father's distressing experience. His 89-year-old father fell in a care home, was admitted to the hospital, and suffered five more falls as an inpatient. Despite testing positive for COVID-19 without symptoms, he was discharged into a care home in a mentally damaged state, with multiple head wounds and no memory. Bill was shocked when he learned that end-of-life medication, including midazolam and morphine, was being considered without his consent. The cause of his father's death was COVID-19.
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🆕Scottish COVID inquiry|Day 21|Bill Jolly
-William's 89yo father admitted to hosptial during lockdown after a fall in care home
🚨POA deemed by NHS as ''irrelevant''
🚨Suffers another FIVE falls as hospital inpatient
🚨Then tests +COVID (no symptoms) and discharged into care home 'mentally damaged' DOUBLE INCONTINENT w/multiple head wounds and no memory
''They found my father on his hands and knees trying to get to the toilet..I was then told they were going to introduce end of life medication which would be MIDAZOLAM and if needed MOPRHINE and i was SHOCKED !''
🚨At the point EOL medications were decided William had never agreed to this for his father.
1⃣Lockdown 2⃣Isolation 3⃣Neglect 4⃣Deterioration 5⃣DNR 6⃣Midazolam
-Cause of death COVID-19
Full statement- https://www.covid19inquiry.scot/sites/default/files/ev-documents/sci-wt0254-000001.pdf
Video Transcript AI Summary
The speaker expresses concern about the treatment of their father in a care home. They received a picture showing their father with injuries and were shocked to learn that he didn't receive a brain scan for those injuries. The speaker also mentions a phone call informing them that their father was failing and that end-of-life medication would be introduced. They were allowed to visit their father but only from the door. The speaker questions the reasons behind these restrictions.
Speaker 0: I'm playing with people's lives and I just thought this is just it was just crazy what was going on. Going back to the picture, the weird picture, yes, I don't know if anybody else here has probably most people have got iPhones, but on the loop on the iPhone, I could my dad was taken into the care home. I got a picture sent to me by the care home manager of my dad with bandages, cuts, blood, a cleanly closed eye, a swelling on the side of his head. Now I found out he didn't get scanned for his head injuries he got in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He got scanned with a head injury when he fell onto the back of his head, but the more serious falls in my opinion and I think the evidence shows it on the pictures.
He didn't get a brain scan for the injuries he received in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He was sent back to the care home, as I say in the photograph show it, in a terrible state. The photograph I'm referring to was horrendous because on the loop that you get, you can hear them being asked to smile and it's just a name grand on and I thought oh my god, if I blew it up and I saw the state of them, I was just horrified.
Speaker 1: On Sunday 19th April, paragraph 76. Yes.
Speaker 0: You got
Speaker 1: a phone call saying your dad is failing?
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 1: Where had he been found?
Speaker 0: Well, on his notes that I got from the care home as well, this box, I saw a phone call from the care home to say that my dad was failing. He was agitated. He'd been shouting for help. He'd been wandering into other rooms, so he was still mobile, They'd found him on his hands and knees trying to get to the toilet. I was then told they were going to introduce end of life medication, which would be midazolam and if needed and morphine and I was shocked.
Speaker 1: But you were told you could come and see your dad?
Speaker 0: I then got an opportunity because that date my father died 26 April and The impression that I got is that he was something serious had happened and he was now in a comatose state and you might only have a couple of days to go. And I was told I could go in fully PPE ed and see my father, but I would only be allowed to stand at the door. Now I don't understand this because I don't know if he was COVID negative by then or maybe they were me going in or the staff, but all I'd be allowed to do as look at Medard lying on his side in his bed. That was all I was like to believe I was able to do.
