Gran has 'heart attack' then waits 25 hours in hospital corridor before going home

Grandmother of 2 Maria Bodea, 86, was rushed to St Helier Hospital successful Sutton, southbound London, erstwhile she suffered a suspected bosom attack, but was near to hold successful a corridor

A grandma who had a suspected bosom onslaught waited more than 24 hours to beryllium seen arsenic she waited successful a "war zone" hospital corridor, earlier giving up and heading home.

Maria Bodea, 86, was rushed to St Helier Hospital, Sutton, London, by ambulance. As determination were nary ward beds available, she was enactment connected a trolley furniture successful a corridor with 20 different people.

But aft 25 hours Maria decided she could not look different nighttime successful the corridor and discharged herself.

Daughter Sanda Ghiurcusor, 57 told SurreyLive: "It was similar a warzone. It was a large enactment of beds adjacent 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.”

Maria had immoderate medicine changed earlier leaving the infirmary and she has 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 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.”