A patient has told how he collapsed at home and then spent 60 hours in A&E before he was given a bed on a ward as hospitals face extreme overcrowding. Dean Jennings, 39, was rushed by ambulance to the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan at around 7pm last Saturday and he said he remained in A&E until Tuesday when he was taken to a ward and had an operation. Mr Jennings, who is suffering from pneumonia, said: “I’ve been in for days. It wasn’t until Tuesday when I got put in a proper ward.
"They were doing my blood transfusions on the corridor. It’s been so busy, hectic, 60 hours wait and all that. That was on Saturday when it was the busiest. It was disgusting.”. Mr Jennings says he was accompanied by his girlfriend Debbie Mason, 50, who has been with him the whole time. Ms Mason continued: “I’ve had about three hours sleep in four days, I’ve been sleeping on a chair in A&E. I went home when he finally got put on a proper ward. I’m not happy with how he was treated, it’s wrong.”.
Other staff had reported waits of more than 50 hours at the hospital while staff at other hospitals in the Greater Manchester area have shared that there are waits of 'more than 24 hours for a bed' as A&Es battle ‘lots of Covid, flu and RSV patients’. Another A&E patient in Wigan told of how he had been warned by a doctor of ‘50 plus hour waits’ for those needing to be admitted. The man, who wished not to be named, went to A&E on Tuesday at 4pm and left around 1am on Wednesday, reported the Manchester Evening News.
