Bed eventually found for woman, 76, on trolley for 65 hours after heart attack

A BED was eventually found yesterday for an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease who spent about 65 hours on a trolley in Dublin’s Mater Hospital following a heart attack.

At one stage, Peg McEntee, aged 76, a mother of nine children from Glasnevin, Dublin, suffered the indignity of having to wear a nappy in the accident and emergency department, because staff were too busy to escort her to the toilet.

Her family said that the woman, who was struggling to breathe and was very distressed, throughout her stay in Accident and Emergency had wished herself dead because she did not want to be a burden to them.