Family handoutA 14-year-old girl remained alone for self-loss in a mental health hospital, when she should have been under constant supervision, was illegally killed, an inquiry jury concluded.
Ruth Szymankiewicz was being taken care of by a member of the employees in his first innings, who had fake documents at Hunterkomb Hospital near Medenhead in Berkshire on 12 February 2022.
Ruth from Salisbury was untreated for about 15 minutes and left alone to walk in the hospital and in his room.
It was there that he was found unconscious shortly after. Two days later, he died at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
When he was closed since October 2021, he was being treated for a dining disorder, when he was taken to a failed hospital.
it was Insufficient rated And Improvement in later requirements In two separate inspections by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in 2021.
More than half of employees Working on the ward of Ruth was absent When a staff member was drafted from another ward to see him.
The hospital, known as Ibo Achampong, had done his job with false papers and never worked in healthcare setting before that day.
The CCTV footage showed her leaving the TV room, where she was sitting with Ruth, before she finally left it and moved to her bedroom at around 20:00 GMT.
Achmpong then ran away from Britain and returned to Ghana, where he is understood to have come.
‘Stop it’
The jury contributed to the factors of his death, which included inadequate training of employees and his care was “neither suitable nor favorable” to help his recovery.
He was also not stopped from viewing “harmful materials” online. The visiting system in which only one family member could go to him at any time was also a contribution factor to his death.
His parents, Kate and Mark Szimankwikz, a GP and Surgeon, respectively, made a statement outside the Buckinghamshire Koroner Court in Biksfield.
Mr. Szymankiewicz said that his daughter was an “incredible, bright, friendly, loving and courageous girl, who was a whole life of Anand ahead of her”.
He said: “When we arrived in our weakest people as a family, we arrived for help.
“We eventually found ourselves into a system that took care of her, to help her, to keep her safe and instead she stopped her and damaged her.”
Ruth’s mother said: “There is an empty space on our table, there is a silent bedroom in our house and a gap hole in our family that will never be filled.”
