Scots OAP who suffered stroke left lying on hospital trolley for 21 hours as a result of bed shortage
dailyrecord.co.ukA pensioner was forced to lie on a hospital trolley after a stroke for 21 hours because there were no beds.Frank Mooney, 65, had been sent to St John’s Hospital, Livingston 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.Labour’s health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: “This shocking case lays bare the crisis at the heart of the NHS.“That this man was left on a trolley for nearly 24 hours is simply horrific.“Staff are working round the clock but are being failed by the SNP Government.“While Humza Yousaf hides from scrutiny, Scots are losing their lives from preventable causes.“We cannot normalise the humanitarian crisis in our NHS.
It’s time this do-nothing health minister got his jotters.”Did you know you can keep up to date with the latest news by signing up to our daily newsletter?We send a morning and lunchtime newsletter covering the latest headlines every day.We also send coronavirus updates at 5pm on weekdays, and a round up of the week's must-read stories on Sunday afternoons.Signing up is simple, easy and free.You can pop your email address into the sign up box above, hit Subscribe and we'll do the rest.Alternatively, you can sign up and check out the rest of our newsletters here.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
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