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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Nicola Small & John Siddle

Desperate patient stuck waiting 6 days for bed begs Rishi Sunak to 'do something'

A desperate patient who spent six days and five nights waiting for a ward bed in an overcrowded hospital filmed her ordeal for Rishi Sunak and begged the Prime Minister: “Please do something.”

Pneumonia-stricken Rebecca Bridgman, 38, had severe breathing difficulties and should have been immediately admitted to a specialist respiratory ward.

But she said she “lost the will to live” after she was left in a makeshift cubicle in an overstretched A&E, which she called “a warzone”.

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