YOUR article (LET, April 22) concerning the alleged refusal by a male nurse at Blackburn Infirmary to give a small child a glass of water prompts the question: where and what were the child's parents doing at the time?
Could they not have got the child a glass of water?
Our nurses are under a constant pressure brought on mainly by short staffing. They have enough work in looking after their patients (some of whom are very poorly on the ward in question).
They should not be expected to chase after other people's children. Of course, if the child had been taken ill, I am sure that the response from the staff would have been very different.
It appears obvious that the child was out of the presence and, thereby, control of her parents. They should have known better than allow a child of such tender years to wander up and down a ward full of sick people on her own.
The biggest tragedy is that you chose to report this matter as 'news' when it is in fact nothing more than a storm in a teacup (or water glass).
ANTONY HAWORTH, Pendleside Close, Sabden, Clitheroe.
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