In a new lawsuit, a paraplegic man says staff at a care facility in the East Bay city of Concord gave him a cup of wound-cleaning solution with his pills instead of water. He says they didn’t call 911 for two hours until he borrowed his roommate’s phone.
As Bay Area News Group reports, Steven Sharp, 55, says on the first morning of a six-week stay at Diablo Valley Post Acute rehabilitation center, he was mistakenly given about five to six ounces of a solution containing bleach with about 12 pills. Per Bay Area News Group, he immediately told staff he’d been given bleach and was feeling burning in his esophagus and stomach.
According to the lawsuit, after 45 minutes of Sharp asking staff to call 911, an employee came in and apologized for what happened. Sharp reportedly waited for emergency personnel for two hours before someone called 911 — only after they found out Sharp had borrowed his roommate’s phone, per Bay Area News Group…