Sunday, June 24, 2012

I Wonder if anyone will be fired or fined for this ineptness?

Today's Wyoming Tribune had the following headline: Coroner: New Morgue Plagued with Problems.


Now - no funniness because the building in question is a morgue.  This is much more serious than any CSI jokes.


In reading the article, I could not help but shake my head. Sounds like the whole thing was done ineptly from beginning to end. This is something that you would think would happen in Mexico, or some third world country, not in the USA in the heart of the midwest.


But such ineptness is nothing new. Boston's Big Dig was apparently a fiasco. In Hampton Roads, Wyoming, a section was added onto Highway 35. (I think it was 35, some major highway, anyway) and the camber of the whole thing was wrong, so it all had to be torn out and done again. Under this same contract, the Construction Crew putting out orange cones were paid individually for doing so, instead of having that included in the contract price, which up until that point had been normal. So they made out like bandits on that...



Here's the problems:


1. Computer equipment stored in a biohazard room
2. Ventilation system "could" have problems. [What is this "could"?]
3. Inadequate pedestrian access
4. No road into the back of the facility
5. The bay where bodies are dropped and picked up "could be larger."
6. The floor on one area of the building is cracked.
7. Sinks were improperly built


According to the paper, "Commissioner Chairwoman Gay Woodhouse said the problems should have been addressed in the buildings orginial design - in other words, why didn't the coroner, who is doin the complaining - do his complaining before the buildinh was built???


The cutting side of the sinks should be reversed with the faucet side.


The morgue is currently at the Cheyenne REgional Medical Center, which apparently had a $700,000 remodel a few years ago. (So why build a whole new building just a few years later...and one that is ineptly built?)


The coroner said "there was no reason to move out of a facility that works into one that doesn't."

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