'I went in a bright 70-year-old but I’m coming out an old woman' after 57 hours on CUH chair 

'If I was an animal, I’d have a tag and I’d be treated better,' Cork woman said

Patricia McCarthy: 'I pity any woman that went in there with gynaecology problems because everyone would hear your business. We have no choice.'

“I went in a bright 70-year-old but I’m coming out an old woman.” 

That is how Patricia McCarthy feels after spending 57 hours on a chair in the emergency department of Cork University Hospital (CUH).