Pensioner who suffered stroke forced to wait 21 hours on trolley at St John's Hospital
dailyrecord.co.ukA pensioner was forced to lie on a hospital trolley at St John's after a stroke for 21 hours because there were no beds.Frank Mooney (65) had been sent to St John's Hospital by his GP who detected warning signs in a chance phone call.
The GP was so concerned about his condition he told him not to wait for an ambulance but to get his wife to drive him straight away to hospital.However, while Frank was taken immediately for tests because his doctor had alerted the hospital, he then spent almost a day on the trolley - many hours of which were actually in a busy hospital corridor alongside other patients similarly lined up.Frank said he had a sore head all day on October 21 which he thought was a migraine and went to lie down but just a minute and a half later his GP rang.
He told the Daily Record : “I was undergoing tests for cancer at the time and my GP was really good at keeping in touch. It was about 5pm and he really should have been away home but he gave me a ring. “I tried to answer him but I had lost the power of speech.“The doctor asked my wife if I had been drinking but she told him I hadn’t.
The doctor said he thought I was having a stroke.“He told my wife to take me straight to St John’s and not wait on an ambulance.
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