The Telegraph comes with more information about the twenty-year-old amateur football player who lay on the sidewalk of hospital Bethesda in Hoogeveen last Saturday, dying of pain. The injured player’s name is Thiamo and it is still unclear what the nature of his injury is. In the newspaper from Jacqueline Winkel, president of football association SC Elim, her dissatisfaction with the ‘inhuman’ course of events last Saturday.
Thiamo suffered an injury in an amateur match as a player of SC Elim on Saturday, as it turned out on Monday from a letter sent to Regional news Hoogeveen. After a hellish afternoon, during which he received no care from the hospital in Hoogeveen, he was finally helped in Meppel. Thiamo has been in bed with pressure bandages and morphine pills since Saturday evening. A scan should show exactly what is going on. Because of the swelling in his leg, that was not possible before. “Hopefully it will become clear on Wednesday what is going on,” says Winkel, who is in contact with the boy and his mother.
After Thiamo was treated on the field by the first aid present, it was decided to carry him off the field by stretcher. Remarkably enough, this turned out to cost the injured football player a ride by ambulance to the hospital. “They said: ‘You have already moved him, then there will be no more ambulance. Just make sure you get to the emergency room.'” They were told that Thiamo could be taken to the hospital in Hoogeveen.
“Everyone in the area knows that there is almost nothing left there, so they were asked: ‘Shouldn’t he go to Meppel, or to Emmen?’ But he really had to go to Hoogeveen first to be seen by a doctor. That was a hellish ride over all thresholds.” Thiamo was transported in a supporter’s van. “He’s a big guy, over six feet tall, not a pager either. But he was in so much pain, he couldn’t even sit.”
At the hospital, the emergency room turned out to be closed and no doctor was present. “There was only a night bell, it was printed on it, but that also lasted and lasted.” Thiamo had been allowed in, but only if he could be lifted in. “That was just impossible. He had already been lifted out of the van with all his might. And they didn’t have a fire card at the hospital. So he got a glass of water and a pillow for his head and then had to go outside on the cold sidewalk waiting for the doctor.”
After a long wait, it was told that Thiamo still had to go to Meppel, but again no ambulance was available. “They only have two ambulances there: one was deployed, the other had to stay for emergencies,” sighs Jacqueline. “That boy was crying and vomiting in pain. Had to get into that van again to another hospital. That’s inhumane, isn’t it? I really have no words for it.” Once he arrived in Meppel, Thiamo finally got help. “He was immediately taken from the van by ambulance personnel and brought in on a stretcher with a doctor. They immediately saw how serious it was and received heavy painkillers.”
Treant Zorggroep of the Bethesda hospital announced in a statement on Monday that the basic emergency post in Hoogeveen will be closed during the weekend. Only the emergency basic station is currently closed. “I have made inquiries,” spokesperson Erwin Kikkers told De Telegraaf. “This gentleman has not been registered for our emergency care at the Emmen location. He probably had to be at the emergency general practitioner in Hoogeveen. But I do not know whether it was busy there at the time. The most important thing is that people do not go to the hospital on their own. go, but they must contact 112 or their GP post, because over the phone it is possible to consider what care is needed at that moment and where the patient can best be helped.”