Corrupt Bastards!
Speaking of his prison experiences, the doctor says he lived for two years in filth with only salty water to drink, sharing a cell measuring 1.9m (6ft) by 1.7m (5.5ft) by 3m (9.8ft) with up to eight people at a time.The nurses were tortured with beatings and cattle prods.
So here's why I'd never work in any dodgy country no matter how good the money is.
This is the inside scoop, or at least it would be if I had any names, dates or places.
Around about the end of 2006, I was seeing a foreign senior staff nurse. She had previously working in a Libyan hospital. She knew most, if not all, of those arrested for the HIV blood scandal because the foreign workers tended to socialize together. Apparently, it was common knowledge that the hospital buyer was a favoured cronie, and had been buying cheep downgraded blood from Saudi Arabia and pocketing the difference. Naturally, when the diarrhea hit the turbo, he wasn't to blame.
On a slightly different note, she told me there was a culture of neglect in the hospital. Nurses would clock on at the start of a shift, then 'dissappear' until it was time to clock out. Many patients died of inattention.
Do you still want to go for that high paying Middle Eastern contract?
posted by Tickersoid at 10:23 AM
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Nope - I wouldn't want to go to work in the Middle East..
Some people seem to think if they keep their heads down, they'll be OK. These nurses had done nothing wrong. I think being Bulgarian was the problem. It's why they were there and also why they were singled out to be the scape goats. Bulgaria being a week country.
i've heard of these issues but i'm not familiar with this particular news story. link?
There's a link in 'HIV blood scandal'.
From there, the right hand tool bar links to other aspects of the story.
Corruption is the Gravity of the ethical world. It wins by default unless resisted. It will creep in everywhere, at all times, because that is just the nature of people. Culture is a modifying force - fucked countries are corrupt as hell because they are fucked, and they remain fucked because they are corrupt, so you can't be seen to tolerate corruption unless you want to fist your culture to death, and by extension, your country. This is why our government is so fucking despicable.
In many places, just like in the old Soviet Union, some corruption on the level of the individual is pretty much essential for pragmatic day-to-day life, because you can't abide by a broken system, but where you get unneccessary, gratuitous corruption, that's where you will find the really cunty people. When your corruption has a great impact AND can be avoided, then you are a very naughty person and should be beaten in a manner generally found in the prisons of the countries where such corruption is endemic.
The nurses you mention who buggered off out of work because they couldn't be arsed and knew they could get away with it, deserve themselves to receive the very best of atrocities, or at the very least the treatment levelled at the scapegoats.
On a lighter note, the woman second to the left on your photo clearly has an opinion on the personal hygiene of the prisoners! And in fact, everyone in that photo apart from the embracing couple are looking at something behind the focal point of the camera (perhaps even at the camera). More telegenic hostages I MEAN releasees? I don't know, Libya, ey? You queue all day to watch a catch-and-release party and then get distracted by a Canon with a telephoto lens. Tut tut.
Integrity is indeed, the corner stone of a good and successful country. We just shouldn't tolerate corruption. It deserves more than a smacked wrist.
It's good that the BBC is going through a period of self flagellation but in a rather ill thought out manner. Some of the incidences of phone-in rigging is criminal. Where are the prosecutions?
I think they should have an amnesty for those that have put their hands up and sackings or suspensions for those found to be corrupt who haven't.
Of course they don't have the recourses to pull that off so it's not going to happen.
So what's my point? I don't know, I'm just having an ill thought out rant.
Fewclewz............
No, I would NEVER even consider working in the Middle East. Similarly, I would NEVER ever contemplate having a holiday in Bali or anywhere else in Indonesia where corruption has been made into an artform.
Whatever failings the Governments of the Western World may have, and yes, they have plenty, the don't compare with those of the aforementioned.
I'm so relieved they are free. Their plight regularly made me stutter with frustrated rage - you know, when all you can do is kick the fridge?
Thanks for putting this out.
The Husband would like to holiday in Thailand. My response: he's going alone and he's NOT taking any LUGGAGE.
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unconscionable.
A word usually used when referring to contract law. I'm not sure it applies in this case although this case is very clearly overwhelmingly unfair to the Bulgarian nurses, whose only crime was to use the crappy blood provided. They wouldn't have been the only ones, but were from a country whose protestations and sanctions wouldn't have affected Lybia.
Well I dont know what to say....
Life sucks for some people.....
and theres bugger all I can do about it :-(
I was so glad they were released. I wouldn't go to work in the Middle East for a luxury job, but you know, if I were a health care worker and were with Red Cross or Red Crescent, I would consider it.
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