The wife of an A&E patient has vented her frustration after her husband was “left abandoned in a corridor for two days". Barbara La Franca said her husband had been rushed into the emergency department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton only to be crammed into a corridor. Ms La Franca claimed he was left “without any pain medication” and was just one of dozens of patients being treated in corridors at the department.
Her story is the latest in a long list which highlight the issues faced by a department, hospital and NHS system on the brink and struggling to cope with patient demand. Ms La Franca, 43, of Mile Oak, said: “It makes me furious. “He was just parked in the corridor for two days.
They were putting beds in at every angle. “He was left without pain medication for several hours. He was also left unable to go to the toilet – he was in the middle of the floor and didn’t want to use a bottle.
Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton (Image: Sussex News and Pictures) “If it wasn’t for me he would have been left without food for over two days. At one point I heard them say they didn’t have enough space in the corridor any more.” Ms La Franca told The Argus her husband, 39, arrived at the Royal Sussex emergency department on the afternoon of Sunday, October 27, due to a neurological condition he suffers from which had left him unable to walk.
She said her husband was forced to be treated in the corridor due to a lack of space. She said h.