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07-02-2008, 01:41 PM
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A SHOCKING video has emerged showing a woman dying on a hospital FLOOR while people around her - including TWO security guards - do nothing to help.
Mental health patient Esmin Green is seen lying face down at the psychiatric ward as both guards sickeningly look at her and then walk away.
Staff at New York’s Kings County Hospital took more than 40 minutes to help the patient - who died an hour later last June.
Hospital staff have now been accused of covering their tracks as the CCTV footage appears to contradict their account of the 49-year-old's treatment.
Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said: “Thank God for the videotape because no one would have believed this could have happened.
“There's a clear possibility of criminal wrongdoing with regard to recordkeeping, and that has to be investigated.”
Green was taken to the unit for "agitation" but keeled over at 5.32am, records the tape.
Despite being only THREE FEET from an observation window no one helps her.
A security guard strolls past Green lying facedown on the floor with her legs splayed at 5.53am.
Astonishingly he looks at her for 20 SECONDS - then callously walks away.
At 6.00am Green is seen writhing on the floor, thrashing her legs.
However her medical log says she was "awake, up and about, went to the bathroom" at 6.00am.
Green stops moving at 6.08am and moments later a second security guard is seen pushing his chair into camera view.
He also fails to help but looks at Green and leaves.
A female patient finally brings a clinic staffer to check Green and calls for more help.
The security guards have since been fired along with four other staffers.
A federal lawsuit filed last year in Brooklyn alleged neglect and abuse of mental patients at the hospital.
The suit sparked an investigation by the Brooklyn US attorney's civil rights unit which uncovered the horrifying tape.
Click here, (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1369353.ece) to view video.
the sun
A SHOCKING video has emerged showing a woman dying on a hospital FLOOR while people around her - including TWO security guards - do nothing to help.
Mental health patient Esmin Green is seen lying face down at the psychiatric ward as both guards sickeningly look at her and then walk away.
Staff at New York’s Kings County Hospital took more than 40 minutes to help the patient - who died an hour later last June.
Hospital staff have now been accused of covering their tracks as the CCTV footage appears to contradict their account of the 49-year-old's treatment.
Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said: “Thank God for the videotape because no one would have believed this could have happened.
“There's a clear possibility of criminal wrongdoing with regard to recordkeeping, and that has to be investigated.”
Green was taken to the unit for "agitation" but keeled over at 5.32am, records the tape.
Despite being only THREE FEET from an observation window no one helps her.
A security guard strolls past Green lying facedown on the floor with her legs splayed at 5.53am.
Astonishingly he looks at her for 20 SECONDS - then callously walks away.
At 6.00am Green is seen writhing on the floor, thrashing her legs.
However her medical log says she was "awake, up and about, went to the bathroom" at 6.00am.
Green stops moving at 6.08am and moments later a second security guard is seen pushing his chair into camera view.
He also fails to help but looks at Green and leaves.
A female patient finally brings a clinic staffer to check Green and calls for more help.
The security guards have since been fired along with four other staffers.
A federal lawsuit filed last year in Brooklyn alleged neglect and abuse of mental patients at the hospital.
The suit sparked an investigation by the Brooklyn US attorney's civil rights unit which uncovered the horrifying tape.
Click here, (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1369353.ece) to view video.
the sun