A patient was left sitting in an A&E waiting room for eight hours ‘while having a stroke, as medics told her they couldn’t help her’, she says.
By the time the 72-year-old was seen by a doctor, she says she was told it was ‘too late to treat’ the blood clot believed to have caused the stroke, as the window for the procedure had passed while she was stuck in A&E.
Jean Murphy, from Middleton, was so confused as she attended North Manchester General Hospital that she was ‘walking into walls’ and her ‘arm would not move’.
