Kia ora koutou, why are state and other employees such as those in retirement homes able to remain anonymous when they’ve done something wrong?
For example, a week or so ago, two employees at a retirement home were discovered to have given an elderly man an overdose of morphine and he died. It was shown to be negligence yet neither the Retirement Home nor those guilty of such carelessness (to put it no stronger) were named. None of the employees in State Homes who abused and ill treated children in their care have been named. They are probably living a comfortable existence in retirement somewhere, respectable citizens, no worries.
The guards who ill treated those women in prison are not named although the women’s names have been blazoned across the news. The perpetrators of such degrading practices surely should be named and face charges? If I did something that amounts to torture of another human being I would be charged and named but there seems to be a cloak of silence over such acts when they’re committed by employees of the State.
Doctors who make mistakes resulting in severe illness or death are never named. Sometimes a report will say they are being ‘retrained’ or some such phrase but what does that mean to those who through their oversight have suffered unnecessarily, or their relatives, if they’ve died?The only time I’ve seen a doctor named was after he was convicted of murder and by then he’d been barred from the practising anyway.
If I’ve had a puff of a joint and get caught I will face employment and social barriers, and perhaps a fine, if I steal from my employer and go to court, my name will be published, if I work in a State Home and treat kids badly, my name is kept secret.
There seems to be one law for one lot of people and another law for others. I don’t say the names should be published through a desire to locate them and tell them off or to post condemnatory words about them, what would be the point? I would be putting myself on a par with them if I did that.
I just want the system to be fair.
Renée
