Hungarian patient treated with stroke taken home to the wrong address by the ambulance

Index.hu reports the incident happening to a Hungarian woman who was treated at the neurology department at Jahn Ferenc Hospital after having had a stroke. Having spent a week in the hospital, she was transported home in an ambulance car, but to the wrong address.

The Hungarian woman involved in the incident on 27 March is called Erzsébet. She has had strokes before this particular incident as well. This time, however, the stroke affected her legs and arms, and she could hardly speak and move even one week after it had occurred to her. Given that she was no longer in need of hospitalisation, she was allowed to go home. Her husband was at work, and that is why an ambulance car was ordered to take her home.

The woman in question lives in the southern part of Budapest, but mistakenly, a wrong address was given to the ambulance car taking her to Angyalföld. Both the name of the street and the house number were right only the district was not correct.

Erzsébet recalls the events in the following way:

“I was taken to the ambulance car where they helped me get in, and together with another patient, we set out. We were on the way for quite a long time when we arrived at Pestszentlőrinc where it turned out that the patient who had to be transported to the hospital had already left in a taxi. Then, we picked up another patient in Gyáli Street and took him to Üllői Street for a CT examination. It was then that the ambulanceman turned to me and said that they would take me to Angyalföld. I was confused and told them that I did not live there.”

“Ok, then, we get out” – said the ambulanceman to Erzsébet after trying to convince her that they had to take her to the address indicated on the paper. This is how she arrived at Angyalföld about 30 minutes from where she really lives.