Glasgow great-gran's hospital hell after waiting hours for ambulance then delay to lifesaving surgery
21.08.2022 - 15:35
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots great-gran who was left waiting for an ambulance for five hours endured further nightmares at a Glasgow hospital. Helen 'Ella' Nimmo, 89, waited hours in crippling pain after falling in her care home with a suspected broken hip.
After finally being taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital at around 1.30am on Wednesday, August 9, the great-gran of two was faced by a catalogue of alleged issues and delays, reports Glasgow Live.
Her daughter, Yvonne Bennett, told: "It was honestly such a traumatic experience. Nothing they were giving her was doing anything for her pain and she was eventually taken for an X-ray. Obviously they had to move her into different positions and I could hear her screaming and crying from the pain.
"They confirmed it was a broken hip and that they would need to operate. My mum is on blood thinning medication, which I was told had to be out of her system for 24 hours before they could operate.
"Luckily, due to her fall, she hadn't taken the previous evening's dose so she should've been okay to go to theatre after Wednesday afternoon. I was told that she would go to theatre on the Thursday morning, received a call that morning saying she would go for surgery that day and she was all cleared.
"Not even an hour after I received that phone call, her physio at the care home called me to say what a shame it was that she wasn't going to theatre anymore. At first I was quite calm as I assumed they had out of date information - I'd literally spoken to the hospital less than an hour before. Then the physio said they had been told my mum had been given her blood thinning medication on the Wednesday night in error, meaning she would have to wait another 24 hours to get it out her system."
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