NHS Lothian apologise after pregnant woman left to wait 'seven days for hospital room'
dailyrecord.co.ukNHS Lothian has issued an apology after a heavily pregnant woman from Edinburgh reportedly left waiting seven days for a room.
Michael and Hannah, who prefer to be identified by their first names only, arrived at the Royal Infirmary on August 19 at 6 p.m.
for a scheduled induction, having reached 41 weeks of pregnancy. Hannah says that 48 hours after arriving, the couple were placed on the ward waiting list but claim they were not given a room to begin the water-breaking process until 75 hours later.
By the seventh day of their hospital stay, they were finally assigned a room, but it was decided that Hannah would undergo a C-section as she was "too exhausted." The health board attributed the delay to an unexpected "surge in activity" at the maternity ward.
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