My daughter is a wheelchair user and suffers from stones in her kidneys and bladder. She is waiting for her next procedure to remove her stones, she is marked “urgent,” and I am tired fighting for her to be seen as she suffers terribly. It has been 4 months since her last procedure which was an emergency, as a stone was blocking her ureter. As well, due to the infected stones, she unfortunately also has severe UTIs every month causing her to vomit and aspirate.
I brought her to A&E yesterday at 10.30am. My Daughter was in her wheelchair for TWELVE and a half hours, as there was no bed (or portable hoist) available. She was so distressed and in need of being changed, I even phoned the hospital desk to ask if they had a toilet with a hoist so I could change her, turns out there isn’t.
The staff are wonderful but so frustrated at not being able to help or even provide a bed, she did get a trolley to lie on, and is being given antibiotics for her pneumonia and UTI.
We’re still in A&E, being looked after but no beds available in the wards where patients should be going to. This is unacceptable, in so many ways.
"Lack of wheelchair facilities and bed shortages."
About: Altnagelvin Area Hospital / Emergency department Altnagelvin Area Hospital Emergency department Londonderry BT47 6SB
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