Patient’s skin flakes after nurse uses wrong chemical!
"I will be discharged sicker than when I was admitted"
A patient in Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital has severe wounds all over the body and his skin is eroding, this happened after a nurse bathed him with wrong chemicals.
A doctor prescribed that Ephert Maseko, a patient in CHBAH should be bathed in a tub of warm water with a bottle of a chemical called Hibiscrub because he started itching mildly. A nurse used three bottles of a chemical called Peviderm instead, off the record.
The nurse poured three bottles of Peviderm in a tub of lukewarm water and ordered Maseko to soak himself for two hours, Maseko said he obliged and after a few minutes he began to suffocate and cough blood.
His skin began to crack immediately after Maseko dried up. Sores appeared all over his body and his skin started flaking the following morning.
Maseko’s Family arrived to visit him and demanded answers when they saw how worse his condition had become. Maseko’s doctor was appalled that the nurse used peviderm instead of hibiscrub and wanted to know why his prescription was not followed and the nurse didn’t record it.
The nurse was off the following day and on October 1, she forced Maseko to bathe with the same peviderm the doctor specified she should not use. Maseko refused and reported to another nurse who said he should not.
Maseko said, “I am afraid that I will be discharged in a worse condition than when I was admitted.”
