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In addition, the HSE’s local safeguarding office had no function to investigate concerns in a non-HSE, non-HSE-funded facility. “My biggest regret is I allowed him to go in there, and they [Kilbrew] took him when they weren’t able to look after him. But I felt like I had no choice,” she says. Mrs Bartley-Meehan understood her husband and could calm and care for him, but was unable to do so at home without support, she says.
She was “shocked” at his dishevelled condition – in dirty clothes, his late stepson’s jumper and shoes that were not his. His head wound was “open ... and had an extremely foul smell which I will never forget – like rotting flesh”. There was “black, congealed blood” and “puss”. She took photographs and brought these to Sage Advocacy, which supports older and vulnerable adults and their families.
A video taken by Dr Shane Carr in Connolly hospital’s emergency department that evening, seen by The Irish Times, shows dozens of maggots wriggling and falling from a large, deep, open, wound on Mr Meehan’s left forehead. “Hiqa in turn advised that they contact the local safeguarding team ... The review team are of the opinion ... this case highlights a gap in remit of Safeguarding Teams in relation to concerns raised in respect of private nursing homes.”
“We also need to ask ourselves if the ‘regulate and inspect’ approach [led by Hiqa] to nursing homes is sufficient. Greater clinical and practice support skills need to be available to nursing homes which are struggling and if those supports are resisted, then they deserve to be closed.”
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