'The conditions were like something from a third world country.'
A Co Down mum has said her local hospital's emergency department was "a scene of absolute pandemonium and like a war zone" when she took her teenage daughter there last week.
"After she was seen by the doctors and triaged, she was placed in a chair on this corridor. It was basically a makeshift ward in a corridor off the main ED where some people had been for three nights. She added: "The staff did eventually open a small ward off gynae at about 8pm that night for four of the women, including my daughter, so they got a bed. One of those four women said she'd been sitting in that corridor for two nights.
"My daughter got back home on Friday night and while she's stronger than she was, I don't think she should have been sent home so soon." “Regrettably we are at times having to use extra trolleys, chairs and beds in our Emergency Departments , wards and any extra space within in our hospitals, sometimes resorting to corridors and other non-clinical areas, to try and cope the demand to accommodate many more patients than we have capacity for.
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