An asthmatic pensioner with spinal problems has claimed she waited three days on a hard chair in hospital.
Geraldine Bollard, 78, spoke outside Beaumont Hospital and said: “No one cares, I was waiting three days on a metal chair. I’m a chronic asthmatic with lung trouble, I’m a diabetic, and I’ve spine trouble. I was very stiff and I had to end up getting steroids through a drip.”
Geraldine was speaking to Newstalk Radio reporter Henry McKean for the station’s show The Hard Shoulder. She called for greater services for the elderly and said: “My message to the Government is that they have to start looking after the old people who are sick and vulnerable.
