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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:13:31 +0500


From: Tracey Benson <tracey.benson-AT-anu.edu.au>
Subject: Fwd: [v-i-s-a-s] flowers and cards
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>The  Final hearing for the Bakhtiyari family will be held tommorrow in 
>Adelaide
>01-AUG-2003 at 10:30:00 AM
>Family Court of Australia, Grenfell Centre, 25 Grenfell Street
>
>COURT R - HEARING LEVEL 5
>
>Before Justice Strickland
>
>Bakhtiari A & M
>
>
>
>Roqia Bakhtiyari is currently a patient at the Women's and Children's 
>hospital in Adelaide .
>
>Below are stories from those who tried to visit her yesterday.
>
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>>
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>>Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:22:45 +0930
>>From: doll yoko <dollyoko-AT-thing.net>
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>>To:  ostermannc-AT-wch.sa.gov.au
>>Subject: Adelaide Womens and Childrens Hospital colludes with DIMIA 
and 
>>security
>>  guards to deprive an expectant mother of flowers and cards
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>
>>Dear Chris Ostermann
>>
>>I read the following eye witness report on various sites on the 
internet 
>>this evening and I am writing to you to express my complete disgust 
that 
>>the health profession is apparently complicit in this utter callousness 

>>to an expectant mother.
>>
>>However, I am so upset by the following account, and can only begin 
to 
>>imagine the deep distress of the expectant mother involved, that 
I leave 
>>this matter in your capable hands to forward to whichever of your 
>>colleagues in the Womens and Childrens Hospital has the responsibility 

>>for allowing this inhumane and totally unnessary situation to occur.
>>
>>I have also written to the Federal and State health Ministers, 
the AMA 
>>and the Nurses Federation. News of this appalling situation has been 
>>widely circulated on many mailing lists this morning and I anticipate 
>>that many people will be expressing their opinions to various health 
>>authorities and the media.
>>
>>How hard is it for a receptionist, nursing aide or nurse to take 
flowers 
>>or cards from a genuine well-wisher and put them in the room of 
a woman 
>>about to give birth to a new life?
>>
>>Why is the hospital allowing itself to be bullied by security guards?
>>
>>As a mother myself, and someone who has a number of close friends 
in the 
>>health profession, I can't begin to imagine how circumstances have 
>>changed, or what political directives have been put in place, to have 
>>generated the situation described below.
>>
>>Surely at the very least "duty of care" issues are at stake here, let 
>>alone common decency.
>>
>>Yours faithfully, and utterly appalled,
>>
>>
>>Francesca da Rimini
>>7/21 Surflen Street
>>Adelaide SA 5000











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