Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Although hospitals are meant to be a place of healing, one viral video shows just how awful things can get when the person supposedly caring for you is abusive.

A 30-year-old woman was in St Mary’s Hospital, Pinetown, Durban, when a nurse began verbally abusing an elderly patient – who died the morning after the video was taken.

Now, she cannot get the image of the ward mate’s lifeless body out of her head, report Times LIVE:

“Every time I close my eyes‚ I see her. Her body lay in our room for hours after she died‚” she told TimesLIVE.

The woman discharged herself on Tuesday after the patient died and decided to post the video on Facebook to “help other patients”:

She did not want to be named because she has since faced death threats.

The video‚ which has gone viral‚ shows a nurse telling a bedridden patient to “get up” and use the bed pan:

“It’s better to be a man because you don’t have any responsibilities but you are a mother. Move your body. Sit up. Sit up. There is a bed pan for you at the side of your bed so you don’t pee yourself. You can’t keep wearing a diaper because it’s going to give you a rash.

Take a look at the shocking scene:

“I am going to tell you as a nurse. I am going to tell you woman to woman. You have children. You can’t just lay back and people to do this and that for you. You can’t do that. You have to try as a woman to move your body. So even tomorrow you’ll need someone to put a diaper on you‚” the nurse can be heard saying in the video.

The KwaZulu-Natal health department said it would respond to the allegations against the nurse on Wednesday.

This country desperately needs to find its moral compass again.

[source: timeslive]