Sick baby forced to wait six hours for hospital bed
The Tory election campaign has been rocked again with images of another child suffering under the cash-strapped NHS.
Following the outrage of a sick four-year-old boy forced to lie on a hospital floor because of a lack of beds - an image Boris Johnson couldn't bring himself to see - it's been revealed that a nine-month-old baby had to wait six hours for a bed.
Jack Williment-Barr's mother, Sarah Williment, covered him with coats to keep warm as he waited for a bed at Leeds General Infirmary to be treated for pneumonia.
His mum said he as left in a clinical treatment room for more than four hours https://t.co/F9pNDXI7Ak
— YorkshireEveningPost (@LeedsNews) December 8, 2019
GMB host and former Mirror editor Piers Morgan wondered if the image would derail Johnson's election campaign.
The powerful, harrowing @DailyMirror front page that Boris Johnson couldn't bear to look at. Will it now derail his election campaign? pic.twitter.com/Dy3uXGDzlf
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 9, 2019
Now Louise Webb, 23, has contacted The Mirror after her baby, Lily, was forced to wait six hours for a bed.
Louise had taken Lily to the Countess of Chester Hospital near their Ellesmere Port home, after she deteriorated following weeks of illness.
Voice of the Mirror - 'Stop the heartless Tory cuts that are crippling our NHS' https://t.co/rex4a0RJBhpic.twitter.com/D8XcfJgmLu
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) December 10, 2019
"To sit in a hospital and see at first hand the situation, it really opens your eyes," she told the Mirror.
Dr Susan Gilby, chief executive at the hospital, said: "We apologise to anyone who has to wait longer than four hours. We would be very grateful to receive their feedback."