Preventable Deaths DHB WAKE UP! help suicidal people, if you fail it can be FATAL

I have been reading a variety of articles lately on the failings of the DHB especially in Manawatu Palmerston North.

Examples of people whom the DHB mental health services have failed.

These ones have ended their lives, and despite coming to the knowledge of the DHB were subsequently ignored, passed by.

Why is this?

When you go to a hospital  you do not go there for fun! especially the emergency department, You go there cos its an EMERGENCY.
the cases I have read there haven't even been plans in place to help specific individuals, despite many advanced warnings - self harm attempts overdose attempts.
Did they wake up with no coffee or something! what do the mental health clinician's get paid for if its not to prevent suicide.?

I can really relate to this one individuals fight with the DHB for help. I had been on a waiting list for DBT treatment for years, its only when I put major pressure on the DHB in my area, and the mental health clinicians that something actually started to happen.

This took 3 letters sent by  myself to the suicide prevention coordinator in my area, the mayor, the DHB, a lot of threatening words. Telling them that if I did not get this therapy they are going to find me dead!

You know the phrase that the squeaky wheel gets the job done!

So true in my case.

Makes me wonder what pressure the family of this individual put on the DHB, and the individual herself.

I read that the DHB have reviewed its procedures since the preventable death but NOW ITS TOO LATE!
Tell that to her mum and her family.

Its disgusting still keep reading cases such as this.

The DHB sometimes only have a small window of opportunity to help someone.
IF THEY FAIL TO DO THEIR JOB AND HELP SUICIDAL PEOPLE THEN IT CAN BE FATAL

WHEN WILL THEY WAKE UP!

MAYBE WHEN ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN DIES OF A PREVENTABLE DEATH!