14-hour wait with broken ribs to see doctor in A&E

A 60-year-old woman who sustained broken ribs in a car crash waited 14 hours in an emergency& department in Wexford without being seen by a doctor before heading 60km to another hospital in Waterford for treatment.

14-hour wait with broken ribs to see doctor in A&E

Susan Mannion, originally from London but living in Wexford Town, said: “If James Reilly and Leo Varadkar apologised to me personally, I’d tell them both to go to hell.”

After Ms Mannion was involved in a two-car crash, in which she said her car was written off, the attending ambulance took the other driver, who was more seriously injured, to hospital first and told Susan to wait for another ambulance.

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