A woman tragically passed away after being forced to wait outside the ER for 15 hours before she was accepted.
70-year-old Marie Shenton from the UK was rushed to Devon’s Torbay Hospital after she began vomiting blood suddenly.
As her family revealed, the woman’s condition was classified under the class one category, meaning she should have been admitted to the emergency room immediately.
When Shenton arrived at the hospital, however, she was told to wait for her turn in the ambulance even though the paramedics warned that she needed immediate treatment.
According to the woman’s heartbroken family, she remained outside the hospital for 15 hours before she was finally admitted. Unfortunately, her condition had worsened and she died three days later after allegedly falling out of her hospital bed.
“My sister’s dead because she was in an ambulance for 15 hours and that’s not right. That’s just not right. To die the way she did, it wasn’t humane. You wouldn’t let the dog suffer like that,” Marie’s sister, Bridget Haynes, said in an interview with Sky News.
Haynes went on to recall how her sister tried to stay positive by “chatting, laughing and joking” while waiting outside the hospital with her family.
She also added that “nobody came” to get her even after the paramedics rushed her to the toilet because she “was just passing pure blood.”
“I am just so angry about it. She bled to death,” Haynes continued as her family spoke out and demanded answers from the hospital.
“It shouldn’t have happened. I am just so angry about it. I just want some answers. I want to know why my sister fell out of bed for a start, and why in this day and age – 15 hours in an ambulance?
“We’re like a third-world country. And we’re one of the richest countries going and this is happening. It’s not right.”
Our thoughts are with Marie’s family during this challenging time.
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