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A DISABLED woman threw herself into a river and killed herself – two days after being turned away from a hospital where she had begged a mental health worker for a bed and said she feared she would kill herself.
Desperate Deborah Milliken pleaded not to be sent home because she was suicidal – but she was given diazepam and discharged after being told there were no beds available.
A doctor at Winchester’s Royal Hampshire County Hospital said they had no choice but to send the 54-year-old back home in an ambulance – despite a stark warning of her friends that Miss Milliken would follow through with her threat – because they could not overrule the decision of mental health workers.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/117...ver_after_begging_to_be_admitted_to_hospital/
Desperate Deborah Milliken pleaded not to be sent home because she was suicidal – but she was given diazepam and discharged after being told there were no beds available.
A doctor at Winchester’s Royal Hampshire County Hospital said they had no choice but to send the 54-year-old back home in an ambulance – despite a stark warning of her friends that Miss Milliken would follow through with her threat – because they could not overrule the decision of mental health workers.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/117...ver_after_begging_to_be_admitted_to_hospital/