A Lisburn man with complex health issues had to wait over 100 hours on a trolley in a corridor at the Ulster Hospital for a ward bed, as hospital pressures deepen
.On Friday, he was taken to the Ulster Hospital via ambulance, but endured a 10-hour wait before being admitted.At 3am on Saturday, he was transferred to the corridor of a ward, due to a lack of bed space and he was left on that trolley until Tuesday evening, when he was able to get a bed on a ward.
"The big worry is knowing when the hospitals were working well, how many times he picked up infections or had complications compared to now when he's effectively been sitting there since Friday and the system is under pressure." "Just even simple things like needing to be cleaned and he had been in that bed since Saturday, it's just really bad.""He was finding it very difficult to cope being on the corridor, more or less being in a public space," she said.
"He had no sort of proper bathroom facilities to use, it's just the open that anybody in the ward or a visitor would use. "He wasn't feeling good at all, I had to talk him into staying on Monday night because he wanted to leave." "We would wish to offer the opportunity to meet with Mr Gribben, his daughter and other family members to discuss their concerns and any improvements that could be made to improve his hospital stay.
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