She broke the foot several days ago and was transported to the hospital. They wanted to get her into surgery but delayed because of possible incoming covid cases and sent her home.
Two days later she's been sitting in the same chair at home because she can't walk, and her hygiene is uncared for. An ambulance was called again today but when they arrived the medics told them that the hospital wasn't admitting anything but 'emergency' patients, and apparently a 92 year old woman with a broken foot stewing in her own juice in a living room chair isn't an emergency.
This is a motherfucking crime, and neither the government nor the health care system gives one shit about it. I'm boiling with hatred for every one of these thugs.
I do understand your concern and frustration. I've had family that broke their bones recently that couldn't get it taken care of because of Covid and we were steamed about it. But I also have several other family in the medical field right now and they are getting swamped with Delta cases. Apparently, the major hospital in my hometown has 0 beds available because of Delta cases. It's extremely frustrating, I empathize with you as I had a similar experience, but the hospital is weighing admitting your grandmother, who probably is not going to die because of her injury, versus keeping a spot open for someone who will very probably come in shortly and need emergency care pronto or they die. I don't say this to be rude or that guy, but just to give some context and let people know this isn't just a hospital profit thing or something like that.
So 18 months into a supposed pandemic and hospitals are still unable to deal with the extra load? They're just caught completely unawares and unprepared by this thing that's been the central focus of the entire worldwide medical and governmental apparatus since January 2020? Despite building and tearing down multiple emergency field hospitals that never saw a single patient?
This isn't January 2020 anymore where you can plausibly use the element of surprise as an excuse.
It's a new variant called Delta, which is much more contagious than the previous strand. It's not "Oh, hey look, COVID is back, woops, didn't see that coming." No one knew how infectious this strand would be until it hit. Do you think all the doctors and healthcare workers are just making up their heavy case loads?
Unironically, yes.