Damning account of care at Welsh hospital

CANCER patient was forced to spend a “bloody inhumane” night in a chair at the Grange hospital, only getting a bed after collapsing on the floor, the Senedd has heard.

- CHRIS HAINES.

> The Grange Hospital

Plaid Cymru’s Peredur Owen Griffiths raised the pensioner's frank account of so-called “corridor care” during health questions in the Senedd.

Warning corridor care has been normalised, Mr Owen Griffiths said his constituent has been back and forth to the Grange hospital in Cwmbran, owing to medical complications.

Quoting the pensioner’s damning account, Mr Owen Griffiths said: “I’m back in the Grange, feeling crap after one night on a chair. The staff are fantastic but the system definitely isn’t.

“The only reason I had a bed at last was because I staggered to the loo and collapsed on the floor. I had to get three nurses to pick me up and plonk me in a chair.

“I think they realised that I should get a bed. Some people are spending two nights in a chair. It’s bloody inhumane. Thank you, Welsh Government.”