Emma McQuitty was told she was just having a heavy period before the diagnosis at a different healthcare trust
A mum from North Belfast has been diagnosed with stage four cancer after being sent home from A&E five times with doctors saying "she was just having a heavy period".
Over the next few months she returned to the Mater Hospital and Royal Victoria Hospital A&E as her problems continued, but every time she was sent home with doctors saying she had menorrhagia. However, a family member convinced her to go to the Ulster Hospital, which is run by the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, where she received the devastating diagnosis that she had stage four cancer and that tumours had formed on her cervix, uterus and bladder, and had begun spreading to other parts of her body.
"I had been going to A&E for six months and every time I was sent home with co codamol and doctors telling me that I just had a heavy period, when in reality I needed urgent tests and treatment carried out.
North Belfast Royal Victoria Hospital
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