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Scots councillor blasts 'terrifying' 10-hour ordeal at hospital A&E ward as she suffered chest pains
01.11.2022 - 08:11 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A health campaigner who helped save her local A&E ward has spoken out after a "terrifying" 10-hour ordeal for treatment at the same hospital. Councillor Sophia Coyle said her experience at Monklands Hospital, after complaining of chest pain, was so bad she would not go back if she fell ill again.
The mum-of-three also demanded the SNP -led Government get a grip on the soaring waiting times crisis. "You can’t just sit back and put blinkers on and say there’s a crisis," she told the Record. "The health service is a shambles just now, but through no fault of the staff.”
Coyle, 46, was a long-standing SNP councillor in Airdrie who quit the party this year to sit as an independent on North Lanarkshire Council. One of her first campaigns in politics was protecting the accident and emergency service at Monklands, but she has now sounded the alarm about the state of the facility she helped stop from being downgraded.
A diabetic and asthmatic, Coyle said she contacted the out-of-hours service earlier this month over tightness in her chest and breathlessness. She said it took around an hour to speak to an NHS professional, who said she should go to Monklands A&E.
Coyle said Monklands was “absolutely full” and claimed patients who had been referred by GPs were waiting for up to sixteen hours. She said: “I was trying not to panic in a waiting room full of people. I felt as if it was getting worse.
“You’re seeing people flooding through the doors and you’re obviously worrying about whether it will be too late without you getting through the doors to see a doctor. You see patients coming in from Wishaw because Wishaw is full. And then obviously we had transfers coming in from Forth Valley. If it’s a nebulizer you need, for asthma,
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