The son of a 95-year-old man who spent nearly 30 hours on a trolley in a hospital corridor described the scenes he witnessed as 'like something from a war zone or a disaster movie'. Harry Lyness was taken by ambulance to the new Royal Liverpool Hospital after he had a fall in the night at his care home but on arrival he was met by scenes of chaos and forced to join a long queue of patients waiting on trolleys on a corridor.
Harry's son John, 61 said: "We got to the hospital at around 10 in the morning. The first thing you see when you walk into this brand new hospital is a massive, long corridor absolutely full of patients on trolleys. It was like something out of a disaster movie where there has been a major incident or an attack.
"I could not believe how many of these makeshift beds there were lined up in a row. Some people were crying out in pain, others had mental health issues, many of them were elderly and frail. It was like a war zone."
