More old age homes needed
The government needs to allocate more funds for elderly care homes and encourage private enterprises to operate them to tackle the increasing aging population problem, says an article on guancha.gmw.cn. Excerpts:
A nurse in an elderly care center in Shenyang, Liaoning province, mixed two sleeping (diazepam) pills in an 86-year-old man's meal so that he could have a good night's sleep because half a pill was proving ineffective. After having the meal, however, the aged man collapsed on the ground, injured himself and had serious respiratory failure.
Diazepam is a prescription medicine. If not taken properly, it can cause respiratory failure. The old age home management should not have left the responsibility of "prescribing and administering" medicines to nurses because they are not qualified to do so and might commit a fatal mistake.
