Danbury Hospital's dialysis unit is experiencing both a horrible injustice as well as betrayal.

My name is Julia Ruiz, and I am one of the many patients who are experiencing this horrible injustice that the staff of the dialysis unit at Danbury Hospital (which has been privatized) is experiencing.

Last April, I experienced the horrific trauma of realizing that I needed dialysis. It was terrifying. But the dialysis unit comforted me and helped me through the tough patches.

Along with family, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday they are there to help each and every one of us who is unfortunate to have to do dialysis just to live.

To now know that Danbury Hospital's owners have replaced them. Was it their salary? Was it their work ethic? Or was it that they are too familiar with the patients?

If it was any of these reasons, I don't understand why they would be offered the same position in different localities in Connecticut for the same pay.

Why are they upsetting the apple cart when it's difficult enough for dialysis patients to go through what they go through on a daily basis? This staff already knows how to treat its patients, since a lot of them have different reactions.

What you are doing is making them go through a very traumatic and difficult time, since the new people will not know the particulars during treatment. As a patient, the biggest fear we have will be the impact it will have on our lives.

Julia Ruiz

Danbury

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