A woman who had been waiting several hours to be admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital died while lying on a trolley in its A&E
By Marie-Louise ConnollyAn elderly woman who had been waiting several hours to be admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital died while lying on a trolley in its Emergency Department.
BBC News NI understands the woman, who was 77 years old, had been brought by ambulance from a nursing home on Friday night.The Belfast Health Trust has passed on its condolences to the woman's family. The trust's medical director Chris Hagan said at times there were 50 to 60 patients waiting for an emergency department bed over the weekend.
"Our thoughts are with the lady's family and obviously we will look into this further," he told BBC News NI."The emergency department on Saturday and Sunday was exceptionally busy with huge numbers of attendances - 50 to 60 patients were waiting for a bed so sometimes patients will be on trolleys. "Of course in an ideal situation, if a patient is end-of-life we would want them to be in a room on their own with their family around them, but you have to understand the current pressure that the system is under, sometimes the care that we provide would not be exactly what we want."
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