The hospital called the Knoxville Police Department. to come to the place and evict the woman since did not have health insurance
Lisa Edwards, a 60-year-old woman with a disability, has died after will be denied medical attention in a hospital, as shown by some images recorded by the Knoxville Police. The events occurred in this town in Tennessee, United States, on February 5.
The woman arrived on February 4 at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center for abdominal painaccording to ‘Losandes.com.ar’. You had been diagnosed with constipation earlier and was discharged. “After spending the night, she was discharged around 7 am on February 5,” reports ‘infocielo.com’.
However, she refused to get out of there. She claimed to have a broken ankle. The hospital called the Knoxville Police Department. to come to the place and evict the woman since I had no health insurance.
In the video broadcast recorded by the body cameras, it is shown how one of the agents explains to him that the hospital staff want him to leave. “I know you have some problems, but you have to find a way to get out of here. I don’t want this to become a situation where you have to go to jail”the agent tells him.
The woman answers that he has broken his ankle and he has a stroke, thus revealing the reason why he has come to the center to receive care. The agent explains that the health professionals have discharged him, but the woman insists that she has not been attended to.
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In addition, the patient is sitting in a hospital-owned wheelchair, so they assure her that she must get up and find a way to leave. “Can’t. Please don’t do this to me, I don’t want to go to jail.”she pleads.
“I’m going to die, I’m going to have a stroke,” he told the cops. before boarding the van, says the aforementioned medium. Police accused her of faking the symptoms and refused to lay her down, calling her “dead weight.” Once inside it, Lisa Edwards passed out and later passed away.