RIP Roger from Quealys
RIP Roger from Quealys
I've just heared Roger, the last barman from Quealys passed away over the weekend at Calmette Hospital. Ironically he started at work there to replace Colin, who you will recall does a couple of years back himself.
After Quealys closed down Roger started a small bar himself.
RIP you scouse git.
After Quealys closed down Roger started a small bar himself.
RIP you scouse git.
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No.Chicagogato wrote:Is this the same Roger who used to be co-owner of SoHo Bar?
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Thanks everyone.
He was hospitalised with a burst stomach ulcer, and whilst he was recovering from that surgery he developed a lung infection which was just too much and he passed away.
Calmette won't release his body until all fees are paid, which total 5k. Then there will be additional fees for cremation and retrieval of ashes, etc.
We've set up for a fundraising page if you can help, or head to Sony Side Up on street 172 and ask for Jess or Scotty. Any bit helps at this moment.
Thanks,
Jess
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He was hospitalised with a burst stomach ulcer, and whilst he was recovering from that surgery he developed a lung infection which was just too much and he passed away.
Calmette won't release his body until all fees are paid, which total 5k. Then there will be additional fees for cremation and retrieval of ashes, etc.
We've set up for a fundraising page if you can help, or head to Sony Side Up on street 172 and ask for Jess or Scotty. Any bit helps at this moment.
Thanks,
Jess
https://www.generosity.com/emergencies- ... er-s-body/
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Jessb52 wrote:Thanks everyone.
He was hospitalised with a burst stomach ulcer, and whilst he was recovering from that surgery he developed a lung infection which was just too much and he passed away.
Calmette won't release his body until all fees are paid, which total 5k. Then there will be additional fees for cremation and retrieval of ashes, etc.
We've set up for a fundraising page if you can help, or head to Sony Side Up on street 172 and ask for Jess or Scotty. Any bit helps at this moment.
Thanks,
Jess
https://www.generosity.com/emergencies- ... er-s-body/
Sorry about all this Jess. Nice work. RIP.
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Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
Just out of interest....what happens if you do not pay the $5k ? . Hospital cannot keep the body indefinitely and will most likely have arrangements with a local wat for a pauper's cremation or some such and given that the chap has passed....would he mind ?
Can appreciate someone might want his ashes though.
Can appreciate someone might want his ashes though.
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Yeah, spoke to the embassy about this. Basically, they will cremate but keep ashes and death certificate.
We're trying to negotiate the price with the hospital, as the surgery itself went well, but he caught the infection in ward and it was that infection that killed him. So we're trying to negotiate paying for the surgery and first ICU. Not holding my breath on that one though....
We're trying to negotiate the price with the hospital, as the surgery itself went well, but he caught the infection in ward and it was that infection that killed him. So we're trying to negotiate paying for the surgery and first ICU. Not holding my breath on that one though....
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RIP. It's a sad further reminder that expats should really try to get health insurance that will cover them going to Thailand for surgery, or for the recovery from any emergency surgery that absolutely has to be done in Cambodia. A disproportionate number of expats who are admitted to Calmette don't make it out alive.Jessb52 wrote:Yeah, spoke to the embassy about this. Basically, they will cremate but keep ashes and death certificate.
We're trying to negotiate the price with the hospital, as the surgery itself went well, but he caught the infection in ward and it was that infection that killed him. So we're trying to negotiate paying for the surgery and first ICU. Not holding my breath on that one though....
Jess, was this emergency surgery, and/or did he pay anything up front? I'm sort of curious how Calmette decides when to treat people without advance payment and when to demand payment up front, as there seem to be reports of them doing both.
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Yes, it was emergency surgery and no payment up front, just his passport. I really think they thought he would survive this, and the surgery did go well. It's just the rest of Calmette is an infested shithole and so he caught a bacterial infection in his lungs.
And yes on the insurance. Sorting mine as we speak....
And yes on the insurance. Sorting mine as we speak....
To keep you updated; we cremated Roger's body today and we will have the ashes tomorrow. The family have requested they keep some of the ashes, and that we have the rest, as he made Cambodia his home in the end.
We will be having a wake/memorial/celebration this Saturday, April 8th from 3pm at Chinese House. We'll put on some free cases of beer and other booze, with discounted drinks afterwards.
Hope you can come and help celebrate his life!
We will be having a wake/memorial/celebration this Saturday, April 8th from 3pm at Chinese House. We'll put on some free cases of beer and other booze, with discounted drinks afterwards.
Hope you can come and help celebrate his life!
Sorry to hear the passing of Roger, condolences to the family, he was a really nice guy.Jessb52 wrote:Yes, it was emergency surgery and no payment up front, just his passport. I really think they thought he would survive this, and the surgery did go well. It's just the rest of Calmette is an infested shithole and so he caught a bacterial infection in his lungs.
However concerning his lung infection, the risk factors for pulmonary complications after emergency abdominal surgery are extremely high, and the chance of a patient contracting something akin to pneumonia are in the order of 28%. Risk factors such as age, heart problems and smoking increase the chances around five fold. Added to this in some cases the infecting bacteria may be antibiotic resistant. This problem could have happened in any hospital and so I honestly believe that it was not purely a result of the hospital conditions that resulted in his demise.
However I realise that the outcome in other more well equipped and more expensive hospitals may be have been different, but the outcome could have been the same, one does not know. I think Calmette did their best,given their resources and unlike some hospitals did not ask for payment upfront, but got on with the job. I hope the family don't grieve too much about the care aspect of the tragic incident.
RIP Roger - nice knowing you!
I saw Roger 4 days after being admitted, 3 days after having the surgery and is hands were still covered in the blood and feces from when he was admitted. He was using the said hands to open and drink from a bottle of water as I walked in. The day he was admitted, the nurse was given $10 to clean him up otherwise they wouldn't - and even then, they didn't really do it. We bought hand sanitiser, soap etc and then when he was moved wards the next day, all of that 'disappeared'.
The blood bag, that was receiving the blood being pumped from his stomach, had to be emptied by a member of the public visiting their family in the ward as the nurses wouldn't do it. This blood was poured into the sink of the bathroom across the hall, the one where people was their hands.
Even the doctor who signed the death certificate admitted that the infection was caught in the hospital because 'the chirugie (ward that he was in) not like here (ICU), very dirty'. They knocked the cost of the ward off the bill.
You're absolutely right that infection is common anywhere in the world, but don't kid yourself; most of Calmette is a fucking mess. The ICU was good though.
Oh, and then they became absolute arseholes over the payment of the bill; they weren't prepared for it be allowed in installments. They didn't have enough space in their own morgue, but wouldn't release his body to another morgue (but still have 'rights' over the body) that has space, which is standard. Instead, they'd rather keep him 'in and out' (their words) and let his body start to fall apart, so that they could extort another lot of money to do a bad embalming.
What's really sad for me is, that I'm lucky enough to get a choice of hospitals, most people that go to Calmette do not.
The blood bag, that was receiving the blood being pumped from his stomach, had to be emptied by a member of the public visiting their family in the ward as the nurses wouldn't do it. This blood was poured into the sink of the bathroom across the hall, the one where people was their hands.
Even the doctor who signed the death certificate admitted that the infection was caught in the hospital because 'the chirugie (ward that he was in) not like here (ICU), very dirty'. They knocked the cost of the ward off the bill.
You're absolutely right that infection is common anywhere in the world, but don't kid yourself; most of Calmette is a fucking mess. The ICU was good though.
Oh, and then they became absolute arseholes over the payment of the bill; they weren't prepared for it be allowed in installments. They didn't have enough space in their own morgue, but wouldn't release his body to another morgue (but still have 'rights' over the body) that has space, which is standard. Instead, they'd rather keep him 'in and out' (their words) and let his body start to fall apart, so that they could extort another lot of money to do a bad embalming.
What's really sad for me is, that I'm lucky enough to get a choice of hospitals, most people that go to Calmette do not.
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Five fold? Jeez, that makes 140%....... the chance of a patient contracting something akin to pneumonia are in the order of 28%. Risk factors such as age, heart problems and smoking increase the chances around five fold
RIP Roger.
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