A patient recovering on a 'run-down' hospital ward has said she was 'horrified' by her experience. Sarah Hills spent five nights at Croydon University Hospital where she filmed dirty walls, broken radiators and bramble growing through a window. Read more:
A patient recovering on a "run-down" hospital ward has said she was "horrified" by her experience.
Sarah Hills spent five nights at Croydon University Hospital in south London, where she filmed dirty walls, broken radiators and bramble growing through the window. Rishi Sunak's first official visit as prime minister was to the hospital, a week before Ms Hills was admitted.Ms Hills, who once worked for the hospital, was admitted on 4 November for an emergency kidney operation. The day after her surgery she was transferred a temporary ward, which Croydon Health Service NHS Trust said was because "demand for our care was exceptionally high".
Once there, she was informed there were no pillows available with "just one thin blanket per bed". Ms Hills says there was no heating on the ward, and the radiators were "stone cold"."The blankets were insufficient," she said, which meant she spent one evening "wandering around the hospital in quite considerable pain begging for pillows and blankets from other wards".
In a statement, the trust said that "as soon as we were made aware, we provided extra pillows and blankets, and quickly stopped any draughts on the ward".
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