Woman (74) on trolley ‘assaulted by drunk man in hospital’

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The woman was left on a bed for another five hours without an X-ray or pain medication.

A Garda investigation is underway into the alleged drunken assault of a 74-year-old woman on a hospital trolley in University Hospital Galway who was subsequently found on the floor “screaming in pain” with a broken hip.Independent TDraised the case in the Dáil as she said that the Government had been “put on notice repeatedly about the state of the hospital”.

The elderly woman had spent 72 hours on a trolley having been admitted from another hospital with a suspected infection and was found “screaming in pain” on the floor. The hospital only addressed the family’s concerns after they made a formal complaint, when they received a phone call to say an investigation was ongoing, but they got no further information.

 

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Our health care system is a joke anyway. Needs changing.

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