CORRIDOR CARE AT 88 HAS TAKEN MUM'S DIGNITY

Son's anguish at her 60-hour wait for bed

- HOLLIE BONE

AN 88-year-old woman was stripped of her dignity while waiting more than two days in a corridor for a hospital bed, her son has revealed.

Nick Harman said his mother Maureen spent 60 hours in a queue to be put on a ward this week at Wigan Infirmary in Greater Manchester.

She had been sent there by her GP having suffered jaundice for more than a week, which could be a sign of liver problems or a tumour.

While Nick, 56, said the staff had been brilliant, he described its A&E as like a war zone.

He added: "It's not acceptable in this day and age in Britain.