An elderly patient was left waiting on a trolley for seven straight days in A&E and needed his wife to wash him at one stage.
William O’Loughlin, 77, was admitted to the University Hospital Galway via ambulance after feeling unwell.
Billy suffers from renal failure, near complete blindness, poor hearing, heart and lung issues, and for a week stayed in an area that was “chaotic, tight on space, full of stale air, and no natural light”.
