PAMELA SMALL was ten weeks pregnant, in intense pain and bleeding when she was rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Saturday.
But according to her, in that condition, she had to wait over two hours and still was not attended to. She is angry at how hospital officials treated her, even after other patients recognised she was bleeding and pointed out the blood on the floor around her.
Small, 35, said it was around 11 p.m. when she started spotting.
An hour after the bleeding the pain got worse. Her boyfriend then took her to the hospital around minutes to 1 a.m. she said.
She said officials at the hospital took her address and then directed her to take a seat until she was called by a nurse.
"When the nurse called me I told her I was ten weeks pregnant and I was bleeding. She told me to go back outside until they call me," she said.
When she was sitting, she said someone tapped her and told her there was blood on the ground.
"I went back to the nurse and told her I needed to see the doctor because I was bleeding and it was on the floor. She told me she didn't know what she could do since there were no beds. She told me I would have to sit in the corridor," she recalled.
Small, a mother of two, was then put to sit on the inside. Still, she said no one attended to her.
She said it was around 4 a.m. when she started to feel very weak and complained to her boyfriend.
"I said if I was dying I don't want to be here so I left," she said.
Still in pain, Small decided she would go to the FMH later in the day.
Doctors there, she said, checked her as soon as she arrived there.
"They told me the baby had already passed out and my womb was closing back," she said.
Small says she is angry at how she was treated at the QEH.
The hospital, in response to Small's story, said records showed that Small visited the hospital around 1:30 a.m complaining of bleeding and abdominal pain.
At 2:05 a.m. the triage nurse saw the patient and took her vitals and blood pressure. At 3:30 hospital officials said when Small's name was called "she was not heard".
carolmartindale
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