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 |  Subject: Woman ignored as she dies on floor of statist hospital  Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:53 pm | |
| Video from a surveillance camera at a hospital shows a woman dying on the floor of a psychiatric emergency room while people nearby ignore her.
The video was released yesterday by lawyers suing Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn alleging neglect and abuse of mental health patients at the facility.
The video shows the 49-year-old woman keeling over and falling out out of her chair on June 19 and lying facedown on the floor, then thrashing before going still. About an hour passed before someone realised what was happening and tried to help.
The agency that runs the municipal hospital - the city's Health and Hospitals Corp - fired several staffers as a result.
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