A terminally ill teenager was placed into a coma after being left on a trolley in a Glasgow hospital corridor for 14 hours. Mark McAvoy, 18, was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on Monday after he began vomiting and experiencing stomach pain.
![[A terminally ill teenager was left on a hospital corridor trolley for 14 hours before he was rushed to intensive care. Mark McAvoy's mum Leeanne took him to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital's emergency department on the Monday, January 6, after he was struck with severe stomach pain and vomiting.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235919388-8563-e1736857461162.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The boy suffers from cerebral palsy -a chronic condition that impacts movement – and scoliosis, a curved spine. But staff told Mark and his mum, Leanne, that there were no beds available, leaving him to run around in pain on a hospital bed. Only a day later, Mark’s condition declined so severely that he had to undergo an eight-hour operation and was placed into an induced coma.
![[A terminally ill teenager was left on a hospital corridor trolley for 14 hours before he was rushed to intensive care. Mark McAvoy's mum Leeanne took him to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital's emergency department on the Monday, January 6, after he was struck with severe stomach pain and vomiting.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235919327-8115-e1736857505799.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=619)
Leanne, 43, said if the hospital had the resources to treat her son, Mark wouldn’t be in a coma. She said: ‘They left him on that trolley in a corridor for 14 hours and his heart rate was racing up and down. I told nurses he had been on end-of-life care for the last two years but no one seemed to take into account what was happening.
![[A terminally ill teenager was left on a hospital corridor trolley for 14 hours before he was rushed to intensive care. Mark McAvoy's mum Leeanne took him to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital's emergency department on the Monday, January 6, after he was struck with severe stomach pain and vomiting.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235919330-6481-e1736857576571.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=612)
‘We sat and sat and sat, while I kept telling them Mark was getting worse. He was in so much pain at that point. ‘I began to panic because I could see we were starting to lose him. I was watching him deteriorate in front of my eyes. ‘I eventually ended up having to call get a nurse from the hospice we are supported by to come to the hospital and speak to the staff.’.
