A woman who was admitted to hospital for a 'routine' procedure says she ended up stuck there for 18 days and in agonising pain after being denied medication.
Catherine Cullen, 62, says she went into Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport on January 24 to have her gallstones removed. But, 15 minutes before she was due to be discharged, she began 'vomiting violently' and suffering 'severe pain'.
Later that day she was given paracetamol intravenously, but she says she was then left for six hours without pain relief. She also believes she wasn't given antibiotics soon enough after showing symptoms of an infection, and so ended up spending 18 days at Stepping Hill suffering Hospital Attained Pneumonia (HAP), sepsis and pancreatitis.
