Currently sitting in A&E at Monklands Hospital with my mother, who is in her 80's. She was discharged today at 7pm and we have been here since just after 8pm and it's now after 2am and still have not seen a doctor
My mother is in pain which she has been in since Saturday severe back pain and she can't walk but she hasn't had an X-ray? They are treating her for a urine infection which could be possible as she now has delirium which she didn't have when she came in. We have been told that they have no beds in the hospital, no beds in Lanarkshire apparently, so they discharged her with no care plan in place and she cannot walk.
If I had studied to be a doctor for all of those years, I'm sure this wouldn't have been my vision. I think I'd feel sorry that I had spent all those years and this is the result. Someone sitting in an office checking beds, putting people out on the street when they are unable to fend for themselves.
Our NHS appears to be crumbling, and yes I know there is a pandemic and people are dying everyday, but I just hope that my mother is not one of them tonight.
"Disgusting treatment"
About: University Hospital Monklands / Emergency Department University Hospital Monklands Emergency Department ML6 0JS University Hospital Monklands / Trauma & orthopaedics University Hospital Monklands Trauma & orthopaedics ML6 0JS
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