“I was wheeled away from A&E at around midnight. I thought I was going to a ward, but no. I was actually going to a corridor where I was left overnight”
A pensioner came away from an almost 12-hour A&E wait with a gashed arm after a botched transfer onto a table for a scan, say his family. The 87-year-old went to A&E after a fall, leaving him with a leg so painful he was unable to stand.
READ MORE:Little boy, 7, couldn't get rid of a cough - now doctors say he might not make it to Christmas “I was sent for an X-ray to be checked for any broken bones and one of the staff members, and two other people, manually moved me from my trolley bed by lifting me off and onto the scan bed. My arm caught on the dropdown sides and was cut.
The Denton grandfather-of- three was waiting until 10pm for his results, eventually being told there were no broken bones but that he would be kept in overnight. The patient was sent home the next day with a walking frame, and the promise of physiotherapy and a home assessment, but had to call for an ambulance again on Thursday morning because he was crippled by the continuous pain in his leg.
“I called the hospital to tell them my mother has vascular dementia and cannot be left alone, the answer was could I get a neighbour to go in and sit with her. But all of their neighbours are elderly and in similar situations themselves.
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