SDLP politician Karen McKevitt speaks out after being treated in a crowded hospital in Newry.
Karen McKevitt spoke out after she spent days being treated for pneumonia in her local hospital in NewryPoliticians are responsible for the chaos happening inside hospitals, a former SDLP assembly member has said.
If Stormont does not return, she added, "politics should be taken out of health because people are dying". She said her breathing became so laboured in the early hours of last Tuesday she feared for her life.Ms McKevitt, who worked as an assembly member between 2011 and 2016 when transformation of the health service was often high on Stormont's agenda, said she had been one of those politicians who had "promised to protect the services at Daisy Hill".
"I will never forget a nurse coming to tell me that the makeshift ward we were in had to close because there was no one to staff it overnight," she said. The patients were treated close to a public toilet in the reception area which was being used by hospital visitors. "I was frightened that if a crash team needed to come through during the night to one of us they wouldn't be able to, as our stuff was scattered across the floor and the trolleys were all so close to each other no one could get through," she said.
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