Hospital Food Can Kill You: Trinidad

It's a well known fact that hospital food is greatly disliked. Nobody in their right mind is expected to like hospital food, though I have always found that the Jello (tm) comes in too small of portions (and I've found the rolls here at St. Joseph Mercy hospital to be quite good when warm!). But someone had to take it to the next level. Well, Trinidad and Tobago made the news again to do just that - this time in Reuter's Oddly Enough.

From 'First-hand experience of Trinidad health system':

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - The head of a commission investigating Trinidad and Tobago's public health care sector said she almost died from food poisoning after eating at a government-run hospital.

Gladys Gaffoor said she fell ill last week after eating at the general hospital in the southern city of San Fernando following a commission meeting there.

"I almost died. I spent one night on drips and oxygen," Gaffoor said Monday, explaining why she aborted a visit by the commission to another hospital.

Gaffoor, a former magistrate appointed by the government to lead a probe into the health-care sector in the southern Caribbean republic, said she began experiencing breathing problems and had to be taken to a private health facility for medical attention.

Ugh. So - what are they going to do? If I end up in a hospital in Trinidad, I expect to pack a lunch.