Nan waited 70 hours on bed in A&E corridor

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Posted by BlueberryMaximum94

9 comments

  1. The norm unfortunately. I relived an ambulance crew, who’s patient had been on 3 different vehicles (we where going to be her 4th) and had been on the back of these vehicles, not even gotten into A&E for coming on 11 hours. It’s really not a good time to get unwell.

  2. She’d had jaundice for weeks. Meanwhile there are actual accidents and emergencies in an A&E.

  3. Dont let anyone tell you privatization would help. It’s the same in the US.

    During the height of the covid pandemic here, I was working in a pediatric emergency room (A&E). We had a 14 year old boy come in from a group home. He had non-verbal autism, was as large as any large grown man you’ve met, and he got violent when he got agitated, including a biting habit.

    He’d punched his teacher in the face and was generally a harm to himself and others so they brought him to the emergency department. It was determined that he was unsafe to return to the group home and would need inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Well these types of open hospital beds are hard to come by and they were very scarce during the height of the pandemic. So this child sat in the hall of an American emergency room for 65 days before an inpatient bed became available.

    Sadly, he punched another teacher within 10 days and was brought back only to start the process over again.

  4. Population has increased by around 10 million since 1997. Hospital beds have reduced since 1997.

  5. And we’re going to keep on seeing the same headlines for the foreseeable future….

  6. What a trooper! Just got on with it. That’s the spirit. Nice little three days in bed!

  7. 6 months ago, also in the UK, my 89 year old grandad waited 10 hours in an ambulance in the parking lot of a hospital to get a bed. Then he had another 24 hours on a temp bed in a temp room with tiny inflatable mattress before he got an actual bed. We had to bring him a warm blanket from home. It was horrendous and dehumanising to watch him so ill and receive no help. I don’t live in the UK, I grew up in the Netherlands and I tell everyone I know this story if anyone dares complain about Dutch health care.

  8. Two of my friends recently had a baby and the father was forced to sleep on the hospital floor on a yoga mat for 4 nights as the midwives didn’t want to help the mother (who was wiped out after a c-section) care for the baby.

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