[Media Beat-up] Jetstar denies heart transplant patient, 5, the use of wheelchair

[drron]

Actually there should be a discussion of hospital policies rather than airlkine policies.In Queensland Regional hospitals I work at there is a transport officer who books (and pays for) train or air travel for a patient having to go to a major centre for treatment.
In Tasmania the Social worker or Discharge planner can and do involve themselves in travel details-usually elderly mainlanders who became ill on their trip.
So what is up with Victorian Hospitals?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I think a lot of the time these people in hospitals have not had much experience themselves with logistics & may have just been thrown into the role with no training so would not have the foresight to anticipate problems with excess baggage or may just think airlines will have oodles of wheelchairs lying around in anticipation of passengers requiring them.

 

[Mal]

I think a lot of the time these people in hospitals have not had much experience themselves with logistics & may have just been thrown into the role with no training so would not have the foresight to anticipate problems with excess baggage or may just think airlines will have oodles of wheelchairs lying around in anticipation of passengers requiring them.

Yep, I agree. I think back to my first trip for work (down to SYD btw) - where the advice came from someone who had rarely travelled and in fact was giving me advice based on her sole trip to SYD a few weeks before (and what others had told her about SYD).

 

[Princess Fiona]

Actually there should be a discussion of hospital policies rather than airlkine policies.In Queensland Regional hospitals I work at there is a transport officer who books (and pays for) train or air travel for a patient having to go to a major centre for treatment.
In Tasmania the Social worker or Discharge planner can and do involve themselves in travel details-usually elderly mainlanders who became ill on their trip.
So what is up with Victorian Hospitals?

You are spot on there! In the previous JQ media beat up over the bereaved couple returning to Sydney following the death of their baby it also appeared to be a monumental stuff up by the relevant state authorities. I find it incredible that the journalists did not research and question the relevant hospital/ state authority in either of these cases in order to produce a balanced report.
Unless of course they have a particular agenda ;p