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Joanne Locked Away Against Her Will
POSTED BY MARY A. KINDEL 22.60SC ON OCTOBER 12, 2014
This has been reposted from the ME Global Chronicle.
Joanne – Now Almost A Year In Hospital Against Her Will
In November it will be a year that Joanne, the 14 year old girl with severe ME, is incarcerated in a German hospital against her own and her mother’s will. (Read about her fate in the former issues of The Global Chronicle.)
The Child Protection officers together with her father obtained a respective court decision to forcibly admit her in a neuropaediatric ward in November 2013, and so far none of our combined attempts to get her free or to at least stop the detrimental “treatment” approaches of the hospital doctors and therapists have born any fruit.
Mother has lost custody in February this year because she tried to protect her daughter from the “activation programme” and the resulting deterioration,and she will most probably never get back her parental rights. (Dr.) Nigel Speight unremittingly supports Joanne’s mother and tries to give advice and influence the doctors and other institutions involved, among them the ethics committee of the hospital whose job would have been to assess the constant violation of Joanne’s human rights and her explicit refusal of all the “activation therapies” they enforce on her.
Instead of doing their job and address these issues they fell victim to the tales of the doctors that Joanne would have improved under their “treatment” and that this was the only appropriate way to make her healthy in the end. So the ethics committee eventually strengthened the doctors’ approach and determination to keep her in hospital for years, if need be.
Since Joanne’s manifold and severe neurological, cardiologic, gastric and immunological symptoms worsen constantly this means in fact: they will keep her in hospital until she is dead. And her end might be quite near because they now plan to place her in a room with another girl on the ward. According to the doctors they want to “bring her back to a normal life”.
She couldn’t even bear the stress and noise of the hospital environment in a single room without deterioration, so the noise and stress of another girl in the room who is cared for, who has visitors and causes other noise like talking, watching TV etc.will definitely render her in a constant almost unconscious state and a further worsening of all her horrible symptoms like overwhelming exhaustion, constant vomiting and sickness, fever and sweating, headache, severe dizziness, tachycardia, sleeplessness and sensitivity to touch, sound and light.
Read the rest of the article here
Joanne Locked Away Against Her Will
POSTED BY MARY A. KINDEL 22.60SC ON OCTOBER 12, 2014
This has been reposted from the ME Global Chronicle.
Joanne – Now Almost A Year In Hospital Against Her Will
In November it will be a year that Joanne, the 14 year old girl with severe ME, is incarcerated in a German hospital against her own and her mother’s will. (Read about her fate in the former issues of The Global Chronicle.)
The Child Protection officers together with her father obtained a respective court decision to forcibly admit her in a neuropaediatric ward in November 2013, and so far none of our combined attempts to get her free or to at least stop the detrimental “treatment” approaches of the hospital doctors and therapists have born any fruit.
Mother has lost custody in February this year because she tried to protect her daughter from the “activation programme” and the resulting deterioration,and she will most probably never get back her parental rights. (Dr.) Nigel Speight unremittingly supports Joanne’s mother and tries to give advice and influence the doctors and other institutions involved, among them the ethics committee of the hospital whose job would have been to assess the constant violation of Joanne’s human rights and her explicit refusal of all the “activation therapies” they enforce on her.
Instead of doing their job and address these issues they fell victim to the tales of the doctors that Joanne would have improved under their “treatment” and that this was the only appropriate way to make her healthy in the end. So the ethics committee eventually strengthened the doctors’ approach and determination to keep her in hospital for years, if need be.
Since Joanne’s manifold and severe neurological, cardiologic, gastric and immunological symptoms worsen constantly this means in fact: they will keep her in hospital until she is dead. And her end might be quite near because they now plan to place her in a room with another girl on the ward. According to the doctors they want to “bring her back to a normal life”.
She couldn’t even bear the stress and noise of the hospital environment in a single room without deterioration, so the noise and stress of another girl in the room who is cared for, who has visitors and causes other noise like talking, watching TV etc.will definitely render her in a constant almost unconscious state and a further worsening of all her horrible symptoms like overwhelming exhaustion, constant vomiting and sickness, fever and sweating, headache, severe dizziness, tachycardia, sleeplessness and sensitivity to touch, sound and light.
Read the rest of the article here
