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A MUM of three who spent a record eight days being treated in a hospital corridor has described her care at the hands of NHS bosses as “disgusting and inhumane”. Traumatised Sarah Dodd spent just shy of 213 hours lying on a makeshift bed next to a disposal area for human waste as ­managers insisted there was no space in the main ward. 5 Traumatised Sarah Dodd spent a record eight days being treated in a hospital corridor Credit: Roland Leon Now home, she is still tormented by nightmares of being stuck in the cramped, 6ft-wide passageway beside Beech C ward at Worcestershire Royal Hospital from the early hours of February 1 till 9pm on February 9.

Former solicitor Sarah, 56, told The Sun on Sunday: “The way I was treated was disgusting and inhumane. “The hospital was so overcrowded, there were other people sleeping next to me in the corridor — I had fully grown men sleeping 3ft from my head. “It didn’t feel safe.



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