Roma in A&E

Dante7

WTF is it with the Roma that they have to bring the whole extended family with them when one of them has to visit A&E? Is it a bit of a day out for them or something? Was in Temple St. yesterday and there was about ten of them with the one sick child. All taking up seats in the Triage waiting room while other sick and injured kids were left standing.

TheValeyard

Berties_Horse wrote: »

All taking up seats in the Triage waiting room while other sick and injured kids were left standing.

I'm not buying it.

I'd believe it about temple street. The A&E waiting space is incredibly small. Horrible waiting area.

enricoh

A day out in hospital, nowt else on.
Apparently wee need them in ireland due to our aging population -they will be paying for our pensions in years to come!
No, that is not a joke, thats the official line!!

Fann Linn

enricoh wrote: »

A day out in hospital, nowt else on.
Apparently wee need them in ireland due to our aging population -they will be paying for our pensions in years to come!
No, that is not a joke, thats the official line!!

Sure aren't they all doctors and engineers.

Allinall

enricoh wrote: »

A day out in hospital, nowt else on.
Apparently wee need them in ireland due to our aging population -they will be paying for our pensions in years to come!
No, that is not a joke, thats the official line!!

Link?

The_Kew_Tour

Sure might as well get good value of the Medical Card

Dante7

Berties_Horse wrote: »

All taking up seats in the Triage waiting room while other sick and injured kids were left standing.

I'm not buying it.

The Triage waiting area is very small. There are eight seats and a long window sill. There were ten Roma with one ill child. I'd noticed this before the last time I was in Temple St a couple of years ago. They weren't being anti-social or anything except for taking up all the available seating. There was a Nigerian Dad with his fourteen year old son who were at reception at the same time as me. Very nice people. The lad pulled something in his leg playing football. The lad was left standing while three under tens were in seats. I shifted them.

corner of hells

Dante7 wrote: »

The Triage waiting area is very small. There are eight seats and a long window sill. There were ten Roma with one ill child. I'd noticed this before the last time I was in Temple St a couple of years ago. They weren't being anti-social or anything except for taking up all the available seating. There was a Nigerian Dad with his fourteen year old son who were at reception at the same time as me. Very nice people. The lad pulled something in his leg playing football. The lad was left standing while three under tens were in seats. I shifted them.

Did the lad play for AC Roma ?

Feisar

To be fair our own travelling community is the same.

paddydriver

Bring in the family so they can go round and rob and pick pocket everyone else waiting in there..

Mad_maxx

Dante7 wrote: »

WTF is it with the Roma that they have to bring the whole extended family with them when one of them has to visit A&E? Is it a bit of a day out for them or something? Was in Temple St. yesterday and there was about ten of them with the one sick child. All taking up seats in the Triage waiting room while other sick and injured kids were left standing.

Tinkers do the same, if grandma Julia is in with some bunion trouble, about forty four of them arrive en masse, they then walk around with big worried 9-11 faces on them until at least a few fights break out in the ER waiting room itself, you can't get near the vending machine either

It's just sport for these people

Dante7

paddydriver wrote: »

Bring in the family so they can go round and rob and pick pocket everyone else waiting in there..

In fairness I didn't see the slightest hint of anything like that. They did leave a lot of rubbish behind them when they were moved to the next waiting room. It was pointed out to them and they then did clean up. Just a huge cultural disconnect.

A while back, a flatmate (doc in Beaumont) was working in A & E and they were dealing with a member of the travelling community who had been involved in a bare knuckle fight. All the family were around the bed, imploring Our Lady to do this and that for their brother/son/father.

The Consultant starts giving my mate a list of things to do (CT scan, X-Ray his hand, etc)

'Anything else?' my mate asks.

'Yes. Get me an interpreter'


Well I thought it was funny, anyway.

There are definitely massive cultural differences between 'mainstream society' and travellers/Roma people, especially when it comes to crucial events like serious illness and death. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. After all, it all seems to revolve around the family as the ultimate social unit, which is a lot more preferable to the competing trend towards abstract individualism.

Capt'n Midnight

Ah jayses, thought this was going to be about opening up a chipper so you could get a bite to eat while you wait

davidk1394

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

I'd believe it about temple street. The A&E waiting space is incredibly small. Horrible waiting area.

I remember that waiting area when I had to go to temple street for regular checkups. Sends shivers down my spine thinking of it