A woman who says she was denied a hospital test due to being a "virgin" ended up in A&E due to painful cysts.
The 26-year-old, who asked not to be named, was suffering severe abdominal pain that was just getting worse at the end of January. It was so bad she said she almost passed out in the Royal Liverpool Hospital's A&E department, where she said clinicians gave her codeine, suggested it was a gynaecological problem and told her to get an ultrasound at Liverpool Women's Hospital.
She spoke to her GP about arranging this, but they thought it was a ruptured ovarian cyst with pain likely to fade on its own in a few days. The student told the ECHO: "The pain didn't go away, it just kept building, it was just that constant pain.
