After A Four-Day Wait On A Hospital Trolley, Great-Grandmother Has Her Leg Amputated

The family of a great-grandmother has stated that she was left on a hospital trolley for four days before having her right leg amputated.

On Good Friday, March 29, Geraldine Newing was brought to Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent due to a severe foot infection.

However, her family claims that after being placed on a trolley for many days and without being examined, a surgeon finally declared on April 2 that immediate treatment was required.

The 78-year-old was told she could die if her leg was not amputated and was taken to have the life-changing surgery.

Mrs Newing’s son, father-of-two Michael Newing, has blasted the standard of care she received and claimed she may not have needed as much of her leg amputated if she had been treated sooner.

Mr Newing, 57, said: ‘It’s disgusting the way she was treated. It was like a war up there—that’s the only way to describe it.

‘It’s particularly degrading for elderly people. For five days she was only seen by nurses and auxiliaries and there were no wash facilities.’

The family first called for medical attention at the end of last month at Ms Newing’s home in Sittingbourne, Kent and decided to go to MedOCC – an on-call service dealing with urgent care problems when GP surgeries are closed – when her condition deteriorated.

The factory worker from Sittingbourne, said: ‘MedOCC told us she needed urgent attention.

‘They took one look at her foot and said she needed someone to see her there and then.

‘They tried for two hours but none of the on-call consultants picked up.’

She was then taken to hospital, and five days later Mrs Newing’s husband Anthony was suddenly told his wife would have to undergo her shock operation.

Her physicians warned her that if the surgery was not performed, she would not survive, thus her right leg was amputated from the knee down.

Mrs Newing remains at the hospital, where she is on a drip and antibiotics to fight the infection.

Her son Mr Newing continued: ‘She’s not doing too good. If someone had looked at her foot properly on Friday, when she first went to hospital, it might not have been so severe.

‘Maybe she would have lost her foot or a few toes or something. The surgeon said that if he hadn’t amputated the leg, my mum wouldn’t be here now.’

Mr. Newing stated that the care his mother, who has diabetes and has experienced strokes in the past, has gotten has horrified him and his family.

Our government is enabling fat cat NHS managers to earn large salaries, which is your problem right there. Mass immigration is slowly but definitely ruining this country.

Although our government has not learnt anything by mistreating its citizens, they shouldn’t have to because they shouldn’t have been mistreating them in the first place.

Taxpayers seem to throw more and more money at the NHS yet we don’t seem to get any improvements in care, and there is no accountability by our government.

These managers are parasites that must be eliminated. They waste NHS resources and are worthless.

Indeed, voters are receiving their wishes as they were cast, as evidenced by the fact that this is a prime illustration of the public services funding cuts that we were alerted to before the last general election.

Mass immigration was supposed to have put more money into our economy so that this wouldn’t happen. The truth is it’s just been put off for another day, and that day is here.