Jon Luisada

Review of Charité, Laboratory for Experi...

My daughter was taken suddenly ill in Berlin about...

My daughter was taken suddenly ill in Berlin about a year ago, we suspect somebody spiked her drink, luckily her boyfriend was with her and able to get an ambulance called.

Then it all went downhill....

First the ambulance staff simply ignored her boyfriend, despite being the de facto next of kin, wouldn't let him accompany her, wouldn't tell him where they were taking her.

So he spent all night trying to find out where she was.

She, when she woke up next morning, found herself..in corridor, next to the toilets...

Her notes said she should have been on half hourly observation but wasnt looked at after initial arrival.

She , then, realising she was going to have to find her own way, got zero cooperation from the staff, and was only intercepted by a doctor as she was leaving , still with an IV in her harm.

So, still disorientated and still feeling not very well, in a city she had only been in for a few days, unfamiliar with the area this hospital was in, had to navigate on foot by the location of the sun until she could find somewhere she was familiar with and get back to the hotel.

She says she liked Berlin, but if she goes back to Germany she is going to carry the full 3rd world medivac insurance.