The son of an 88-year-old woman who has been detained in A&E for more than 60 hours said it has stolen her dignity.
Maureen Harman was brought to Wigan Infirmary on Monday evening in Greater Manchester, but from Thursday afternoon he was still not admitted to a department.
Her son, Nick Harman, said that Mrs. Harman was on the trolley most of that time in a corridor with many other patients.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) apologized for the long waiting time and said that it would have been 'extreme pressure' in a comment from the BBC.
The 56-year-old son said his mother was sitting on the bed “uncomfortable” in many other patients, some were accompanied by the police, drug addicts and others.
He said to the BBC: 'Your dignity is just gone. You do things in the hallway, with people who are strangers. '
The retired dinner lady, from Wigan, was jaundice – that is when the skin has a yellowish color for about a week.
She was taken to A&E on the command of her 'very worried' doctor and she waited for a scan to see what this caused.
Maureen Harman was brought to Wigan Infirmary on Monday evening in Greater Manchester, but from Thursday afternoon he was still not admitted to a department
Her son, Nick Harman, said that Mrs. Harman was on the trolley most of that time in a corridor with many other patients
The 56-year-old son said his mother was sitting on the bed “becoming uncomfortable with many other patients, some were accompanied by the police, drug addicts and others
However, Mr. Harman said that he was shocked when he was told on Monday evening that his mother could wait more than 49 hours to be seen.
“It is unacceptable in Britain at this time,” he said.
Nevertheless, he said that the staff of the infirmary was 'brilliant', but compared the scenes at the A&E as on a 'warzone'.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been approached for comment.
It comes when a record number of patients was forced to wait at least 12 hours for emergency department last month, it appears that dams.
Official data show that 61,529 people have waited more than half a day in A&E departments to receive care in January – an increase of 13 percent on the December figure.
It is because individual NHS figures see the number of bed blockers seeing patients who are good enough to leave the hospital, but are unable to get care of the highest level this winter at home and to reach just over 14,000.
Experts insisted on the government to tackle the lack of social care capacity behind the delayed discharges, and the lack of beds is overwhelming emergency departments.
While the NHS is waiting for a record number of 12-hour A&E A&E, a MailOnline analysis suggests that the actual size of the problem is much worse.
The health service emphasizes the so-called trolley awaits in their published figures between a Medic who decides that a patient should be admitted to the hospital and when they get a bed.
Critics claim that this underestimates the scale of the problem, because it is not the total time that a patient spends in A&E, from the point when they arrive.
Because of this statistics, the number of waiting time from more than 12 hours last month to 172,515 more than twice the estimate of the NHS. Now, with the help of the exclusive Tracker tool below from MailOnline, it is possible to search for your local NHS trust and the size of the delays.
That analysis, which cover data for December 2024, showed that the scale of the A&E crisis hit some hospitals harder than others.
The worst perpetrator was Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where slightly less than a third of patients with urgent care in his hospitals waited 12 hours or more in December.
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust came in second with 26.6 percent of patients related to extreme delays, followed by the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where the figure stands at 25 percent.
The best performing trust was Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, where only 0.4 percent of patients wait longer than 12 hours to see a professional in health care.
