Gran, 86, who suffered ‘heart attack’ forced to wait 25 hours in hospital corridor as there were no ward beds available

AN 86-YEAR-OLD grandma waited 25 hours successful a infirmary corridor for a ward furniture aft a suspected bosom onslaught - earlier giving up and going home.

Maria Bodea suffered the aesculapian exigency astatine location and was taken to St Helier Hospital, Sutton, London, by ambulance.

But determination were nary ward beds disposable and the gran-of-two was enactment connected a trolley furniture successful a corridor with up to 20 others, her household say.

Widow Maria and her girl Sanda Ghiurcusor, 57, were stationed next to a doorway starring outside, forcing them to deterioration wooly hats to support warm.

Unable to look different nighttime successful a corridor with "no privacy" Maria self-discharged herself 25 and a fractional hours aft she arrived successful hospital.

Sanda says others sleeping successful the corridor said they'd been waiting determination since past Sunday (September 15).

She says "embarrassed" unit said the concern was the aforesaid crossed each spot successful the country.

The aesculapian PA from Banstead, Surrey, was keen to accent that her frustrations weren't with the staff.

Sanda said: "It was similar a warzone - it was a large enactment of beds next to the wall.

"We were enactment consecutive successful the corridor adjacent the automatic doors truthful we had acold coming successful - it was a truly atrocious night.

"People could locomotion past, cleaners locomotion past, and there's nary privacy.

"Someone other said they had been determination since Sunday.

"My mum is precise frail and confused now.

"The matron told maine it's similar this successful each spot successful the country.

"It's not similar the unit is not nice, everyone does a superb occupation but the absorption doesn't look to put successful what's needed.

"It's not the doctor's responsibility - you tin spot the unit are stressed and embarrassed."

Sanda and Maria arrived successful infirmary astatine astir 6.30pm connected Tuesday.

Maria underwent a CT scan of the caput and bladder tests and was referred to a advisor for further tests connected Thursday but decided she couldn't enactment different nighttime successful the corridor.

She was inactive successful the corridor astatine 8pm connected Wednesday, truthful discharged herself then.

Sanda - who is primitively from Romania - said the concern successful the infirmary made her "sad".

She added: "They were swamped. It's conscionable sad. I couldn't judge I was successful England.

"Even successful Romania, older radical wouldn't beryllium treated similar this."

Maria had immoderate medicine changed earlier leaving the infirmary and she's been referred to different advisor for further tests.

A spokesperson for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust said: "While we ever bash our champion for our patients, these are not the conditions we privation to attraction for them successful and we are truly atrocious that Mrs Bodea did not person a bully experience.

"When our services are exceptionally busy, arsenic they are astatine the moment, we sometimes person to attraction for radical successful different areas of the infirmary until a suitable furniture becomes disposable - this is ever lone a impermanent measurement and patients are supervised by objective teams astatine each times."