Woman Dies Hospital Floor in Kings County

Woman Dies Hospital Floor in Kings County
At 5:32 a.m. June 19, a woman in a hospital gown in the waiting area of the psychiatric emergency room of a New York City hospital topples first to her knees before collapsing on her face.

A full hour passes. Other people stream in and out of the waiting room, including hospital security guards. The woman writes something on the ground before going completely still. Finally, someone takes notice and alerts the staff. But by then, at 6:36 a.m., the woman is already dead.

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The woman, 49-year-old Esmin Green, died on the floor of the waiting room at the Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Department. Her exact cause of death has not been released.

The native of Jamaica, who had been waiting for a bed when she collapsed, had been involuntarily admitted the previous day for "agitation and psychosis," according to the City Health and Hospital Corp., which acknowledged June 20 that Green had been left unattended on the ground for an hour.

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[Asokhel]

Highly disturbing. But the good thing is that the incident caught the attention of Media. Hope that recurrences would be prevented. Though the indifferent attitude of people present in the room is disturbing. May her soul rest in peace.

[jakefree24]

Great the others in the waiting room didn't give a hoot. Yet I can hear the screams of racism

[taylorswiftfan1ist]

she didnt hit in the floor she hit the chair and then the floor look closely

[RamzalTimble]

@RamzalTimble I'm black and I accept that fact. People in AFRICA HATE US. Why? Because we're spoiled. We have all the resources and reasons to improve our lives, but instead we decide to shoot each other. So before you say something like that, think for a second. How is it that black people are in ER most of the time? Gun downs. Gang violence. We do this to ourselves, and we can't DARE try to point the finger and yell "RACIST!"

[RamzalTimble]

@PaulDougouba Whoa whoa whoa. It's not about black or white. Nor racism at the least. It's about hospital systems. It's about hospitals not putting enough staff on hand to care for patients in waiting rooms.

More need to be assigned, and policy needs to be changed. However, as far as your gunned down on the streets comment? I'm sorry, but black people do it to themselves. Mainly by not trying hard enough to advance their own education, but also not taking their own chance to advance in life.

[RayAir1]

That is so wrong. No one even cares.

[Psycho9263]

Amen to that!

[PaulDougouba]

Black people have been denied proper Health Care, decent Jobs, and good educational opportunities for TOO LONG!!

WE demand to have access to Health Care...weather we are POOR or NOT...weather we can afford it or NOT!!

We want our kids properly educated instead of being GUNNED DOWN in the streets!!

We want our hoods cleaned up from all of the Liquor stores and crack houses!!

We are TIRED of being treated like ANIMALS like this video shows!!!

[Psycho9263]

If we had "socialized" medicine,everyone of those neglectfully irresponsible cocksuckers would be out of a job! Doctors and all!

[flume7]

As much as I admired Michael Moore's film SICKO, it is important to remember that the abuse that those in a psychiatric hospital suffer is UNIQUE. You can have a decent health care system, but, ALWAYS, it seems, the psychiatric patients come LAST - it is a special kind of discrimination in and of itself. In this case, her race was also worked against her. Really distressing also considering these particular kinds of 'abuse' happen all over the world. Including Cuba, Michael Moore ;)