Cries of patients ‘going unheard’

SERIOUSLY ill people waiting days on trolleys in overcrowded A&E units cannot be heard when they cry out for help, a patients’ lobby group has claimed.

Patients Together called for more safety measures to be put in place after it was alleged an elderly man, who was using oxygen, on a trolley at Dublin’s Mater Hospital, noticed a man smoking beside him.

John Glynn, aged 67 and from Finglas, suffered from emphysema and died after being transferred to a bed.