'Climbing over people... blood on the floor': Patient waited 36 hours for treatment in A&E ordeal

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More patients tell Sky News their casualty department horror stories as the NHS crisis intensifies, with an 85-year-old women from Cornwall waiting 26 hours to be admitted to hospital after laying on a cold floor for 14 hours following her emergency call.

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerThe daughter of a diabetic patient who was forced to wait 36 hours for hospital treatment has described her disbelief at seeing blood on the floors and people on drips in the corridors.Police called for an ambulance to take the man to hospital after finding him in desperate need of help.

His daughter, Hannah, told Sky News he then waited 12 hours inside the ambulance to be admitted to Peterborough Hospital - before spending a further 24 hours waiting in a corridor.Hannah told Sky News' health correspondent, Ashish Joshi:"I can't tell you how many ambulances there were, they just seemed to go on forever... I was walking along the side of the building and they were all queued up on both sides of the road.

 

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People on drips etc in the corridors has been common place for years 😢

But RishiSunak insists this isn't a crisis! If he's right and this is just how the NHS is gonna be under the Tories who's gonna vote for them? Who wants this current state of affairs to continue? ToryBritain

My grandmother having a blood transfusion in the corridor a few weeks ago. She was there for 23 hours. She has lung cancer

Can’t believe no one warned the government/NHS about the dangers of the covid restrictions and what issue’s they would cause, oh wait ……

The NHS is the envy of the world, we just need to finance free healthcare properly.

Was this in Afghanistan?

If this isn't a reason to rid UK of the destructive corruption of the tories, then I don't know what is.

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