A father has told an inquiry as to how his teenage daughter died, who died after being unsafe in a mental health hospital, “was treated like a mischievous child”.
Mark Szymankiewicz said that his daughter Ruth was “near Hunterkomb Hospital, near Hunterheadhead,” not punished or not supported “.
The 14-year-old, from Salisbury, was being treated for a dining disorder and when she died self-loss and later, the interrogation should have been subject to continuous supervision.
Hospital, which has been closed since then was rated scarce And later Need to improve By Care Quality Commission (CQC) in 2021.
The Ruth was unmatched for about 15 minutes and left alone to walk to the hospital and go to his room, the assistant coroner Ian Wade Casey said.
Shortly after, he was found unconscious and two days later he died at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
Ruth was initially looked after in the children’s ward at Salisbury Hospital, before Ruth was initially transferred to Southampton.
He was then rushed to Hunterkomb Hospital, which Mr. Szymankiewicz said “managed him, but did not help him with his issues or problems”.
Inquiries heard that in a letter to one of the psychologists, Ruth wrote that she went to Hunterkomb for help, but she did not help her, and that staff “never heard”.
Kate Szymankiewicz stated that his daughter was “isolated” due to restrictions on family visit and without her family he had “no emotional support system”.
He said: “The system really failed her, the team of doctors tried to help but was allowed to go down.”
Dr. Szymankiewicz said she “repeatedly asked the team to allow more family visitors in Hunterkomb and requested them to take them out, as she preferred to be out”.
“But all of them were refused, separating the Ruth more,” he said.
He told that she was told that she was informed that her daughter was allowed 20 minutes out of only one day, which she found “difficult to believe”, because “even prisoners get an hour”.
It was heard earlier that Ruth was being taken care of by a member of the employees on his first innings, who were later found to be false papers.
Inquiries in Buckinghamshire Coronor Court at Biksfield are expected to last for about two weeks.
