Coroner questions decision by paramedics to leave Tasmanian woman later found dead - ABC News

Ambulance Tasmania paramedics left a woman with a history of mental illness alone in her home without electricity, hot water or lighting before she was found dead months later, in a move a coroner has labelled "difficult to understand".Neighbours called police for a welfare check after not seeing 59yo Kim Szemes for weeks in May 2018

Coroner Simon Cooper has handed down his assessment of the 2018 death of 59-year-old Rosetta woman Kim Szemes, finding she died between 28 May and 8 October 2018. Police entered the residence through a window, finding Ms Szemes in bed wearing a beanie and covered in blankets in an attempt to keep warm.Police left after paramedics arrived, on the understanding that Ms Szemes would be transferred to the Royal Hobart Hospital.

If you can't convince them to go to hospital, legally they cannot be taken against their will.

This is terrifying.

This generations loss of common sense is the reason. PC and Nanny State rules . Legal system corrupt, fear of litigation.

Lots of people with serious metal illness refuse treatment. Don't blame it on the paramedics. They also become very violent if they have not taken their medications.

I don't know what's worse. The paramedics leaving her or her family/son not trying to contact her between May and when he visited in October.

Maybe the coroner could ask Jeff Kennet why he shut down the mental hospitals where specialist care was given to those unable to cope with living in society? This is a failure of politicians not ambo's.

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