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STOP THIS NOW! PICTURE SHOCKER: ‘Hero’ grandfather kidnapped by family after nine weeks of ‘captivity, neglect and starvation’ at hospital
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A BELEAGUERED hospital has come under the spotlight yet again after a family had to ‘literally kidnap’ their own relative when he received ‘appalling treatment’ for nine weeks. Staff at Torrevieja hospital have been slammed after they allowed Swedish expat Bo-Eskil Svensson to suffer horrific pain ‘from neglect’. The 80-year-old, who has since died, suffered appalling bed sores from infections, due to a lack of care, claim his family. “This hospital killed my dad”, Mia Mooseberg told the Olive Press this week.
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“They starved him in a Covid ward, confined him to bed and held him captive for nine weeks,” she added. She claimed the former fireman had developed horrific bedsores because he hadn’t been turned over. They had grown so deep they became infected. Despite ordering a private ambulance to transport him home to his native Sweden, they were unable to get him discharged. “So we decided to kidnap him and drive him 3,000kms back to a hospital
HORRIFIC: Bo was left frail, emaciated and suffering from infected bedsores pital with a urinary tract infection on December 6, last year, but subsequent treatment wasn’t covered by his insurance. When he was transferred to the nearby University Hospital on December 21, his nightmare began, insisted his loving wife Barbro. Seeing that her husband of 60 years was receiving such poor care, she paid for a private ambulance to take him back to Sweden. However, when collection was arranged, staff prevented the move, claiming he had Covid-19. It led to the grandfather, who had served as a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon, being left in complete isolation for EIGHT days without food or fluids, insisted his family. When they came to see him in January they were so alarmed they took a series of horrific pictures, showing the shocking level of malnutrition and neglect. After his wife, 79, sat with him for four further days without a bed for herself, daughter Mia insisted they ‘decided to kidnap him’. They hatched a plan for two other grandchildren to fly to Spain and met CHARGERS FOR up with Barbro’s friend ELECTRIC VEHICLES to rescue him. In a slick operation, the group ‘borrowed’ a hospital wheelchair and autoconsumo@solarworks.es carefully got him out of bed, out of the ward and into the family’s campervan.
that would care for him properly.” She continued: “Doctors back home were completely speechless about how an EU hospital neglected a person in this way. “Days later at home, he died because of that neglect.” Bo had been admitted to a private hos-
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They then drove the 3,000 km journey home and into the care of the emergency room at Karlskrona hospital, near the family home in Karlshamn. But sadly, her dad did not survive and died on April 17 of the infections that he developed in Spain. After multiple attempts at trying to get her complaints heard at Torrevieja Hospital, Mia has now shared her experience on social media. “It is appalling what they did to this lovely man, who was a hero - a fireman who saved many people,” Mia explained this week. “I hope our tragic story can save someone else.” One of the Facebook sites she turned to was set up by British expat George Continues on Page 5
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