Elderly woman waits six hours for stitches on head wound

A 98-YEAR-OLD woman had to wait for over six hours in casualty before receiving stitches for head wounds after she slipped in a nursing home.

The woman, who turns 99 in a fortnight, slipped and fell in her nursing home and split open the back of her head.

She had to wait in line in a corridor at Waterford Regional Hospital before receiving ten stitches to her head.