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Mayor's fury over hospital shocker

BY JOHN MARZULLI, ERIN EINHORN and STEPHANIE GASKELL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Tuesday, July 1st 2008, 11:13 PM

An angry Mayor Bloomberg said he was "disgusted" by a video that showed employees at Kings County Hospital ignoring a Brooklyn woman as she lay dying on a waiting room floor.

"Horrified is much too nice a word," the mayor said Tuesday after watching the 107-minute tape. "Disgusted, I think, is a better word."

Esmin Green, 49, died on June 19 after going to the psych ward at the Brooklyn hospital. As she waited for help for nearly 24 hours, she fell from her chair at 5:32 a.m. and began convulsing.

Lying facedown, she was ignored for more than an hour by hospital security guards and staff. By then, it was too late.

"I can't explain what happened there," Bloomberg said.

Four employees and two security guards were fired, and city investigators are considering filing criminal charges.

The city's medical examiner has not determined the cause of death.
At Green's church, friends said they were shocked by her death and described her as "a healthy, strong woman."

"It's the last thing we expected," said Pastor Dief Ebanks of the Jesus Is Love Church in Canarsie. "It's terrible that people could be so unfriendly and hard and tough."

Ebanks said Green "was a little off at times," but "loving." He said she was a housekeeper, a day-care worker and the sole financial support of her six children back in Jamaica.

Green's sister is expected to fly here from Jamaica to take her body home. City officials said they would pay all funeral costs.

Bloomberg said he still has confidence in Health and Hospitals Corp. President Alan Aviles, who runs the city's hospitals.

"I think he did exactly what he should have done," Bloomberg said.

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